alzymologist@sopuli.xyz
on 29 Aug 10:14
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dentists hate sugar drinks (I’m with them on this one)
ophthalmologists hate screens
urologists hate themselves
janewaydidnothingwrong@lemmy.world
on 29 Aug 11:43
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I thought you meant window screens for a second and was picturing some kind of weird eye injury epidemic involving enthusiastically looking out windows
It’s actually almost a thing - in Moscow State University, during world cup a decade ago, lazer show was projected right onto students dorm. Not that students didn’t protest, it’s just those who did were taken by police. Not to mention that many students had babies, and few were fans of loud noises or football for that matter. Fortunately these people were smart enough to save their eyes. Oh, good old stories from hell.
massive_bereavement@fedia.io
on 29 Aug 10:23
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And anyone in a field related to studying living creatures in nature hate pesticides/herbicides.
Because pesticides harm everything that eats the thing that eats the thing that eats the thing that eats the pesticide.
Wait, so the lead shots imbed in the animals that eat the lead shot large birds? And again for the animals that eat the animals that eat the lead shot large birds?
riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 29 Aug 19:48
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If an animal gets shot with lead, survives and runs away, there is now a wounded animal or an animal carcass containing lead somewhere in the wild.
If it is wounded or freshly dead a carnivore will eat it and accumulate lead. That may be large carnivore or a smaller carnivore that later gets eaten by a bigger one. Birds tend to have stronger stomach acid that most mammals, allowing them to dissolve the lead better.
Vultures having it the worst as they will eat any carcass and have the strongest acid.
Maultasche@lemmy.world
on 29 Aug 10:29
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I hated Product Managers as first but learned how they can be a valuable asset. Especially when dealing with customers or executives. They can handle all the crap throw at us and just filter down what we need know.
TomMasz@piefed.social
on 29 Aug 11:01
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Slip and fall danger.
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de
on 29 Aug 11:11
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I know 2 people that both had an accident this way. One tore off a tendon around the knee, the other fractured their hand from trying to cushion their fall. And I don’t know that many people.
Ugh, if only that worked for longer than like a month.
Eventually all these materials you can throw under throw rugs to make them stickier end up failing. Catastrophically.
Make sure to get a throw rug that has the non-slip feature sewn in. Make sure it’s nice and heavy too and never put it in the dryer (it’ll ruin the non-slip part). You should probably air dry throw rugs anyway, actually 🤷
bunkyprewster@startrek.website
on 29 Aug 12:11
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TomMasz@piefed.social
on 29 Aug 11:01
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HP printers in particular.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 29 Aug 11:53
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Weirdly, i don’t hate HP printers (at least, the FutureSmart ones). Xerox can fuck right off with all those restarts just to change fucking settings though
CS IT but yeah. I work in a company with people with masters in CS from Ivy League schools and they don’t understand the first thing about how hardware or their OS works. Common misconception
unwillingsomnambulist@midwest.social
on 29 Aug 16:04
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…which, in and of itself, is sad as hell because one of the course requirements (at least when I was working on my CS degree) was Operating System Concepts & Design.
okr765@lemmy.okr765.com
on 29 Aug 12:30
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If your players are breaking your game, try to make a mechanic out of the emergent behaviour
figjam@midwest.social
on 29 Aug 11:08
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pulmonologists hate vapes
RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world
on 29 Aug 14:36
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Data? No, because there is none. And I have read every.single.study. They are all fucked in some way or another whether it’s methodology or the stats or the sample size/composition. Not a single real in vivo study. None. There is exactly one researcher in Greece doing decent work, and that’s it. I took a career change from my previous and now present career and worked in pharma and biotech research.
figjam@midwest.social
on 29 Aug 16:21
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Are you a lung doctor or are you someone who vapes and wants to be able to maintain the illusion that it isn’t harmful?
RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world
on 29 Aug 17:46
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I am someone who used to do medical research for a lot of money. I’ve interviewed chairs of FDA committees, trial designers, and active trial leads on phase III (mostly) research in pharma and biologics. I still have access to PupMed via my old friends.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 29 Aug 16:31
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Inb4 popcorn lung lmao.
(Diacetyl, the chemical responsible, is also found in cigarettes, 2,000x more than in vape juice, and cigarettes have never caused popcorn lung. The only recorded case afaik comes from the powder form being used in a popcorn factory with no respirators, and it acted like asbestos sorta where it settles in the lungs. That’s a far cry from the liquid form that was in some vape juice before the freakout, which has never shown to cause popcorn lung, just like it doesn’t with cigarettes.)
Inb4 vitamin A oil E acetate [fixx’d, was in a rush and done fucked up. Close enough though lol.]
(Black market weed carts made by some dickhead in his garage who didn’t know what he was doing. Legalize it already ffs.)
RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world
on 29 Aug 17:45
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My guy/gal/nonbinary pal: pls see the references in this medicpro.london/…/vaping-and-popcorn-lung-separat… Diacetyl has been widely banned since 2014 in all but the most trash Chinese vape juice, and quality vendors never used it in the first place.
Also the supposed cases of popcorn come from one source. Some dude in California who cut his cannabis juice with it, and in every single case the kids that got sick were using his juice in vape pens, not actually vaping. It’s Friday night here and I’d rather not track the story down but if you really want it I’ll find it.
As a former life long smoker, vaping (which is the front line treatment for cessation in the UK) saved my life. Now, however, the shops pushing disposable vapes with super high nicotine salts on to kids - which is illegal almost everywhere - they need to die in a fire. The kids don’t get hooked on "vape;’ they get hooked on nicotina because those damn things are the equivalent of smoking two or three regular cigarets in one puff.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 29 Aug 19:16
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Thanks for backing up what I said.
Though it was never popcorn lung from the weed vapes, like I said that idiot used vitamin E acetate (think I mistyped and said A earlier but same diff.) Didn’t know he was in CA though I thought he was midwest.
Former smoker, current vaper. I know inhaling anything other than clean air isn’t good for me, and I know nicotine addiction isn’t good. I plan on quitting, and I’m making decent progress to that point.
But it bugs the shit out of me when people try to act like it’s worse than cigarettes. It’s not. Shitty Chinese vapes marketed to kids that we don’t know the ingredients of? Sure, ban em. Black market vapes made in some dudes garage with oil? Absolutely track em down and end that man’s whole career.
But properly made, regulated vape juice in a rebuildable tank? Leave me the fuck alone. Please. Please do not take the thing that has helped millions of people quit smoking!
Can you link me any decent articles to help the next time someone says some dumb reactionary shit?
RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world
on 30 Aug 11:02
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Yeah alas the subreddit for it did a lot of the heavy lifting for me - they took apart every study (I helped) and had some good sidebar (or was it pinned, been so long I cannot remember) info to counter the “dumb reactionary shit.” I am pretty sure the sub got baninated, but I haven’t been back to reddit since I rage quit after the API debacle.
When I first started vaping in 2011 (after smoking two packs a day for decades), there were a lot of solid, research-based web boards, but I think social media killed them, as it did so much.
I’m in pathology (research, transitioning to medical) so that was my frame of reference here. Its my job take the samples given to the lab and turn them into slides for analysis but tue results are only as good as what I’m given in the first place (crap in, crap out). same with blood draws, urines, anything improperly collected no longer properly represents the thing it came from. Then I have to tell the client that…
I spent years in a research path core and am just wrapping up my med lab certification, it amused me when they hired actors to come to our program and we role-played dealing with angry pathologists, fuming nurses ect… Most of my clients have been MSc students or MD/PHD conducting research. they might be experts in their field and conduct these brilliant studies then stumble right at the finish line because sample collection was bungled or something ruined during extraction. I’ve seen some “interesting” DIY fixation and processing protocols to save a little money that did the same thing. I always feel so bad but most people are willing to learn and work with us.
I’ve had the privilege of working with users with actual computer training. Old ladies who started working on terminals in the 70s and 80s. They were awesome, because they actually understood what they were doing. They could give me an accurate description of what they were doing when shit went wrong. They had real concerns and realistic requests for improvement. And they never blamed the computer when they encountered something they didn’t understand. They’re all dead or retired now.
Todays computer illiterate workforce is doomed to be incompetent because they don’t understand how their main tool works. Nobody bothered to train them.
The complicated thing here is there are so many layers of abstraction to make things easier to use and understand that if you didn’t age with the tech, it’s really hard to fully understand. That’s everything. I see Angular and React developers who don’t understand CSS.
My last position, we had classes that set sizes for everything in multiples of 4 pixels. So size-1 is 4 pixels, size-2 is 8 pixels, etc. And everything was sized with those classes. Which means if you ever wanted to resize anything, you have to go to every element and change the class instead of you know, having input controls have distinct classes.
People are layering on abstraction without understanding why and throwing away all the benefits, time to invent another abstraction layer! I had my tech lead argue with me that this was a better system because “standards”. I’m going to assume the standard was poorly understood because I can’t imagine a multi-billion dollar company hires idiots to set standards.
I got started learning transistors and Boolean algebra and programming an 8-bit cpu in college. Had computers for a few years before that. It’s surprising how many conditionals I see that can be simplified by Boolean algebra.
I don’t actually hate computers, and I try to give IT workers some grace because I’m not always proud of the work I do when I have to finish 3 months of work in two weeks. But I’ve worked with a lot of folks who aren’t curious or looking to learn and improve, and I have to wonder why they ever got into IT in the first place.
For me the worst part of IT is the god damned management. Any possible productivity gains from agile are undercut at every turn by management who has to have a concrete promise of a delivery date before they even define the ask.
Anyway, sorry for the rant. Started my long weekend early and starting a new job next week, so I have a lot of pent up rants from my last company.
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world
on 29 Aug 16:00
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We’re all standing on the shoulders of giants, but there are so many layers of giants that it’s hard to see the ground.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
on 30 Aug 18:01
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Why does it feel like im getting stepped on by giants?
I mean, there’s idiots and there’s idiots, you know? Yeah those classes should never have existed and maybe that’s evidence enough of idiocy, but there is an abundance of folks smarter than me. Surely they could hire one of them…
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 29 Aug 16:21
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Thing is, back in those days computers were deterministic.
A certain action caused a certain reaction, and always the same reaction (given the same context).
Anyone could learn that, as long as they bothered to read the screen (a surprisingly rare talent, to be fair).
Now, at least on windows, it’s anyone’s guess what random mayhem a certain action might cause, or where the interface to perform that action has gone after the last update, supposing it still exists and the system survived the update.
No one can learn that. And anyone foolish enough to try will certainly be driven insane.
stupidcasey@lemmy.world
on 29 Aug 17:22
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It seems to run on some form of electricity.
happysplinter@lemmy.world
on 29 Aug 17:44
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Todays computer illiterate workforce is doomed to be incompetent because they don’t understand how their main tool works. Nobody bothered to train them.
There also so many things restricting the usage of the tool. Every week my scanner tells me it has a new software update and I cannot install a simple update without admin access, so I have to call help desk and have them remote into my computer so they can click the “ok” botton.
Everything is so walled off there’s no reason to learn how any of it works because you have no access. When the security bios update (forget what it was called) fucked everyone’s computers last year I found a fix online and could have easily went to several locations and got them up and running, but no one on site has the access to boot into safe mode and instead we all just sat on hold with help desk for 2 days waiting for IT to do the thing I already knew how to do.
HakunaHafada@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 30 Aug 21:48
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Printers are known in IT to be a utter pain in the ass. Most brands are also using a lot of proprietary stuff and it limits interoperability. Drivers for example.
Well known example is about ink cartridges. HP added identification chips on them, so if you want to use an other brand, not HP, to fill your printer, you can’t because if no chip is detected despite a cartridge being inserted, the machine will tell you it is not genuine.
Another example with Rycoh. I don’t know if their printers still use this method, so take it as an example of capitalist greed more than a current situation.
Laser printers are using a sealed container to process waste created during printing. Rycoh had placed a led detector inside to know when it was full and trigger an alert, stopping the machine and request for a change.
Good idea in theory but in practice the detector was placed very oddly or on purpose near or in front of dust intake. So it was bathed very quickly in electrostatic dust and thus triggered the alarm very quickly, even if your container was not fully filled.
The only way to solve this was to shake your waste storage, hoping it would clean the led enough to keep going for a few days or change it.
Lastly, I have a Brother printer, bought to a neighbor sale. The oven inside, which is in charge of heating the ink, had a failure. It had melted. For the price, it was a deal. I only needed to buy a new part, unplug it, replace and I had a laser printer with colours. Well, Brother had lightly soldered pins linking the connector to PCB. When I unplugged it, soldering came with it. I contacted a repair store near me telling me they don’t do it and I should ask for a repair to a certified Brother technician. Which is overpriced. I also can’t open it fully as it is placed to be impossible to repair without disassembling half of the machine.
No printer is the same, some brands are better than others. Some are well accepted on Linux with CUPS, some other not. But so far, not one brand impressed me well enough by their design to keep it open, easily fixable and long lasting.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz
on 29 Aug 14:46
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IT people hate other people using a computer
Jankatarch@lemmy.world
on 29 Aug 16:02
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I hate my computer as well. That’s why I have to modify it to something completely different before I am able to use it for basic text editing.
I AM TALKING TO YOU EMACS PUT YOUR BACKUPS SOMEWHERE ELSE BY DEFAULT ALREADY I USE GIT
People keep saying they’re dangerous but I ride one all the time. I really wish they were as well studied as bikes, where I know the helmet doesn’t help that much when you’re hit in a collision.
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works
on 29 Aug 22:52
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A scooter’s wheels have a much smaller diameter, so they’re much more susceptible to rocks and bumps than a bike.
bacon_pdp@lemmy.world
on 29 Aug 11:52
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God, wtf.
We always went out of our way to help the teachers whenever possible. We donated any and all supplies that they asked for and gave them gift cards for Christmas. We supported them actively when they protested for better wages and other benefits.
What sort of monster would hate the very people who you trust with their own children?
The kind of parents that think their little crotchspawn is an angel and every bad grade is the teacher’s fault.
Don’t get me wrong, there are bad teachers (had a couple both as student and as a parent), but mostly are doing their best. Or at least not be purposely bad.
Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world
on 29 Aug 12:21
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The devil on my kids shoulder killed the angel and then hung herself.
Wow, I always thought every bad grade meant that I needed to get my child more help studying the material that they performed badly on. (Even bad teachers with fair tests can give one a chance to figure out what they are bad at teaching and get my child the help on those subjects outside of their class).
The only type of teacher that I ever had a problem with was one who was not fair in their tests. (Like seriously, it is a math test and their answer is correct but you marked it wrong because they used a different method than the one you taught in class???)
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works
on 29 Aug 23:19
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Not saying that teacher didn’t suck, but method can be important in earlier math classes. So much of early math is about developing number sense and just understanding what is being represented by a mathematical statement. If a method is a stand in for a larger level comprehension, say, showing that 3*2 is also represented by three rows of two, ie
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Just regurgitating a memorized number doesn’t show that deeper understanding.
Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world
on 29 Aug 12:20
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As a parent, I don’t hate the teachers. Other kids parents need to get their shit together though. The amount of homophobia and racism casually thrown around by the other kids is appalling.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
on 30 Aug 18:19
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But then again, we love things most people hate.
Like earthquakes and vulcanos. Absolutly amazing stuff for me as a geologist but damn very much uncool for kind of everone else :D
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 29 Aug 22:41
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Picky eaters are, without exception, some combination of childish, self-absorbed, developmentally-stunted, and incurious. Oh, you “won’t eat” some dish that literally hundreds of thousands of humans eat every day with your special, unique taste buds? Fuck outta here, kid.
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 29 Aug 16:50
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Picky eaters hate this truth.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
on 30 Aug 18:08
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The picky eaters consented to eating the meal. They should have scouted for more intel first.
Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world
on 29 Aug 15:49
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I’ve recently taken the attitude of “im making insert pretentious food you can eat that or sandwiches”
I was legit like 20 before I realized I could say I didn’t like something and avoid it being cooked for me in the first place.
TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world
on 29 Aug 13:03
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It’s easier to cook for others than yourself.
Eidunno I’m no chef but I worked a bistro. Then went to it. Like people said it’s users. Always the user.
Nurses are the worst to cook for. Like the cops of women. Not all are shit but the ones who are ruin it for everyone else. Entry level job that gives absolute control over the disenfranchised. Of course there will be bullies.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
on 29 Aug 13:09
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Droggelbecher@lemmy.world
on 29 Aug 13:37
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I’m at the hospital as a patient at least once a month. A lot of doctors are bullies, but I’ve yet to see a single nurse that’s so much as rude to me. At most a bit short when they’re stressed, but never more than that.
Someone I’m close with owns and operates a restaurant that puts out high quality food, but at home they mostly live off of grocery store frozen pizza and rotisserie chicken.
Jean_le_Flambeur@discuss.tchncs.de
on 29 Aug 12:15
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Teachers hate AI
SirSamuel@lemmy.world
on 29 Aug 12:34
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clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works
on 29 Aug 13:35
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IANAL, but people use it on squeaky hinges and knobs and locks, but it sits in the mechanism and collects dust. It turns into a gummy mess eventually, which is the last thing you would want in a lock.
slackassassin@sh.itjust.works
on 29 Aug 15:10
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IANALPL
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works
on 29 Aug 16:11
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That reminds me, I haven’t watched one of his videos in a while.
SirSamuel@lemmy.world
on 29 Aug 16:11
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This is it ☝️
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
on 29 Aug 17:41
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I imagine it gunks up the lock mechanism. I have had to eventually replace locks I used it in.
korazail@lemmy.myserv.one
on 29 Aug 15:10
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not a locksmith, but…
One of those candidates for ‘worst memorable phrase in history’ is the old “duct-tape for things that move and shouldn’t and wd-40 for things that should move and don’t”.
WD-40 isn’t a lubricant. It often works to get something un-stuck, but then you need to still clean and lubricate the parts to keep it working.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 29 Aug 16:21
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People sticking Q-tips in their (E)ars and to a lesser extent, (N)oses and (T)hroats.
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca
on 29 Aug 14:29
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You’re absolutely correct, but op is making a joke about Ents from LotR. A cheeky little pun, if you will.
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip
on 29 Aug 14:33
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As someone whose name escaped the skipping record that your name is, I concur.
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca
on 29 Aug 14:48
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It’s a reference to this character from Catch-22. Unless this is my turn to be wooshed.
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip
on 29 Aug 14:55
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I wasn’t making any kind of reference, myself, to be whooshed by. I’ve used this name around for a little while and just wanted to agree with your statement, then noticed the partial similarity in our names and wanted to comment on that, to, as if someone were trying to say my handle but got stuck on an audio loop: “Major— major— major— major—”
PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world
on 29 Aug 16:09
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But transplant surgeons love them 😇
CloutAtlas@hexbear.net
on 29 Aug 13:31
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Orthopaedic doctors hate chiropractors
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today
on 29 Aug 16:00
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I work in orthopedics and rehabilitation…for the most part the majority of chiropractors are harmless. If the patient believes a chiropractor is helping manage their pain, I don’t really care about the efficacy of the practice. Plus, most chiropractors are risk adverse enough to know not to work on areas where hardware has been installed.
If we’re sticking to the format of items or activities that are a reason for a lot of our appointments… Ladders, motorcycles, bad drivers, trampolines, and electric scooters and diabetes are probably the top contenders.
Huh, my friend absolutely abhors chiropractics. But I guess also all the family members who don’t listen to her and instead waste money to get their spines fucked with
psycho_driver@lemmy.world
on 29 Aug 13:55
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Auto mechanics hate Fix-a-Flat. I speak from firsthand experience taking off a tire that was full of the stuff.
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 29 Aug 14:36
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I feel super sorry for whoever has to do my next tire change, the previous owner of my vehicle (just purchased otherwise it’d already have had a tire change) was using fix-a-flat for top ups so the didn’t have to lug out the air compressor.
I have no idea how much goo is in these tires, but I can only assume they look like the aftermath of a ménage et troi with 3 “Slimers” from ghostbusters.
Why do people do shit like this lmao. I mean I know gas stations gouge the hell out of you to use the air compressor but using FAF to top off your tires is… an interesting way around it.
I’m surprised they could even put anything in the tire even after the first treatment. FAF by its nature seals holes, and usually the valve stem gets clogged as a result.
I can’t imagine it being good for your wheel balance either. But if the ride is smooth then it should be good.
We had a local shop owner killed when airing up a tire with fix-a-flat. His wife ran the shop after his death and she did not mince words when someone asked why the shop wouldn’t patch their tire that had fix-a-flat.
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today
on 29 Aug 15:49
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We had a local shop owner killed when airing up a tire with fix-a-flat.
How? Was he working on an industrial tire or something?
dude you can hate but 80% of “data” still.on excel. I’m in my third global company and people still control things on excel. and 5% power bi (some from excel) hahahahaha
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
on 29 Aug 18:14
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Wait you mean your organization doesn’t use some ludicrously expensive hosted database solution or 3 to aggregate data then instead of natively working with the data in that database it gets exported and transformed on a local machine which may or may not havd backups then ask the database people about weird data quirks coming from the local transformations performed on the data
they do but they export it to excel 🤣 not joking, some people export the entire data base of something and just use it on excel because “it’s very easy”
It’s perhaps not so much Excel, as much as it’s just the symptom of a lot of bigger issues: working without version control, without column validation or access control, limited documentation (not necessarily better in data warehouse but at least the functionality is easily accessible), limited automated testing, etc etc.
If only they could keep their data for themselves, then ok. but no no, we have to ingest it, and do work on top of it in dwh, and it just breaks so often due to a variety of different stuff.
mmcintyre@lemmy.world
on 29 Aug 14:23
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Truck drivers hate “four wheelers” because they don’t know how to drive.
When they’re not in their semi they generally drive a four wheeled vehicle their very own self, presumably being hated on by other truck drivers.
Pazuzu@midwest.social
on 29 Aug 15:06
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eh, other truck drivers aren’t much better. biggest takeaway getting my CDL was realizing just how low the standards are to drive a truck
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 29 Aug 15:26
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I’ve always wanted to drive a semi so this may be good
I used to do fleet management. It’s so bad. I never would have believed how many people take clearance signs as suggestions.
And the class D (regular license) drivers test should include a “show me where the truck driver can and can’t see you” portion.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 29 Aug 22:37
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My regular license says class c
RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 30 Aug 08:35
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Do trucks not have the stickers saying ‘if you can’t see my mirror I can’t see you’ on them? I see that all the time.
obsoleteacct@lemmy.zip
on 30 Aug 18:15
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I haven’t read the DOT code in a while, so I genuinely don’t recall if they’re mandated, but I recall that all my trucks had them.
This is of absolutely no use in preventing people from a close merge on the passenger side where the driver definitely cannot see. Often the driver’s first indication that this has occurred is the crunch. I’ve never seen one of these accidents that wasn’t completely avoidable.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
on 30 Aug 18:16
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These drivers wouldn’t care if they knew how to read this sticker.
I need to sit down and actually watch Red Dwarf sometime. Like I did once watch the first few episodes when I was a teenager but I was way too young to fully appreciate it
Some of this is absurd, but I feel like a lot of it is tongue-in-cheek stuff or just “let’s see how far we can push things into ridiculousness before your grandma notices that something’s off”.
Psychoanalysts hate those blotchy black & white images of my mother’s pussy giving birth to my father who is wielding a knife with my name written along the hilt. “Stop bringing these fucking drawings in here!” she yells. God forbid a man have hobbies.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world
on 29 Aug 15:19
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😶
bitjunkie@lemmy.world
on 29 Aug 21:05
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This brought to mind a collection of asshole admin stories from the early internet. With a bit of googling, it was The Bastard Operator From Hell. God, I haven’t thought of those since the 90s. I can’t believe I could even recall something like that.
NelDel@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 29 Aug 16:10
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Electrical engineers hate OrCAD, seriously. I keep a spare file on all of my work computers collecting when I see someone on line saying OrCAD sucks. Brings me comfort when the program crashes for the 5th time that day
RogueBanana@piefed.zip
on 29 Aug 16:34
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I know q-tips aren't safe or whatever but man it feels too good to stop.
ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org
on 29 Aug 16:51
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What do you mean, not safe? I always thought “do not use in your ear canal” was just a joke they wrote on the packaging. Like, actually good one, what else are you gonna do with it?
blindsight@beehaw.org
on 29 Aug 16:56
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They’re also used as cleaning tips for small/targeted applications, especially when you don’t want lint from a Kleenex or paper towel lingering. Makeup application/removal and electronics cleaning, for example.
I think (not a doctor) the ear thing is because if you go too deep you can cause some serious damage, and they can make wax buildup worse by compacting it. If you stay close to the ear opening, and do circular motions to swipe wax away, and clean your ears often enough that you don’t get dense wax build up, and don’t “double dip” to introduce potential pathogens, then I think they’re pretty safe to use? But that’s too many caveats for lots of people, so I think ENTs often deal with people damaging themselves with them.
That’s my point - Q-tips and novelty toys are both more commonly used for their off-label functionality because listing that on the label is inconvenient for the maker.
pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 30 Aug 06:43
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Yo don’t actually put those in your butt, they’re not made of body safe materials and will give you ass cancer. Don’t use TPU, TPE, PVC, or tin-cure silicone in your butt. It’s literally made to absorb stuff and putting carcinogens in it is a bad idea. Look for medical grade or platinum-cure silicone.
I don’t live in a state that advertises the toys as novelties, but all the toys at my sex shop are body safe. I have to imaging the ‘totally not a sex store’ novelty shop is probably also seeking the same suppliers, just different packaging
pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 30 Aug 19:03
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There’s a lot of stuff out there that isn’t body safe. Never been in a physical store but have gotten a lot of stuff online and had to throw out the toys I got first because they were TPE. They weren’t even marketed as novelties, they were being sold for body use, even though they weren’t safe. There’s no legislation preventing it, it’s perfectly legal to sell unsafe toys. If your toy isn’t silicone, then DEFINITELY don’t use it analy. Even then, unless it’s specified medical grade or platinum-cure, you’re rolling the dice on what’s actually in it. If you have a silicone toy you’re unsure of, there’s ways to verify it.
Yeah, I am not going to contradict any doctors when it comes to the risks, but for my ears and the way I do it, I haven’t ever hurt myself and my PCP says my ears are completely clear at each checkup.
I think I’m fortunate to have pretty light thin wax though.
UnculturedSwine@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 29 Aug 16:43
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anti_antidote@lemmy.zip
on 29 Aug 16:57
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Software engineers hate MBAs. It’s like they live in a fantasy world where everything works perfectly and can be done in 3 days and can read your mind.
That's why those fuckers love LLMs so much. They don't understand anything remotely technical, and it makes them believe they can just cut out the grumpy, uncooperative middleman and push shit code in production they are unable to audit.
I got my MBA almost a decade ago, several years after getting my software engineering master’s first. We hadn’t started a family yet, and my employer had amazing tuition reimbursement.
It didn’t work on me though, even though there were some interesting systems, math, and psychology to learn about. I am still an individual contributor writing code daily, helping the younger engineers, and growing into my generalist graybeard best self.
Unfortunately my dark side training hasn’t given me much insight that you don’t already have yourself, most likely. I guess it’s worth pointing out that while most probably live in that fantasy world, there are some smart nerdy people in that world who might be driven to optimize their business like they’d min-max a dungeon crawler build. There’s just something else that went wrong along the way, lol.
ASK_ME_ABOUT_LOOM@beehaw.org
on 29 Aug 17:05
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Some of us are real go-getters and realize we can bring the farm to us long before we retire! I am currently typing this on my Linux couch computer wearing lightweight clothes with literal dirt smeared on them, on a dinner break before I return to the back yard and continue today’s construction project. Sometimes being a “farmer” also means becoming a carpenter!
Granted, it works much better for the suburban homeowner than anybody living in a city and/or an apartment.
And when I refer to myself as a “farmer,” all my animals are family pets cared for as a hobby. There is 0% business plan. Well, probably negative %. When we have too many animals (usually too many fish in the pond) we give them away for free!
moseschrute@lemmy.world
on 29 Aug 22:17
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That does sound nice, but in writing this from my work from home location right near to the beach. But my second choice would be someplace with a lot of woods and some good star gazing.
Count another one for the sysadmin building a homestead in the forest while also building platforms for evil corpos from home.
I also have no intent of ever turning my farm into any kind of income. But it is definitely worth all of the extra work to spend any breaks sitting outside surrounded by animals, trees, water and sky.
Software devs also hate UX/UI Designers.
And Product Owners.
And Scrum Masters.
And Software Architects.
And Security/Compliance Managers.
And QA Testers.
And worst of all… Software devs.
… when they said to themselves "This little piece of code is fine, I don’t need to change it now. I’ll just refactor it later. "
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
on 29 Aug 21:45
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Software devs also hate UX/UI Designers.
I would never be able to explain coherently the difference between UX and UI people. I’ve only worked for one company that even had a UX guy on staff. He was paid an insane amount of money (close to half a mil per year) and as far as I could tell did absolutely nothing except insist that certain procedures be followed rigorously. He never designed anything at all himself.
He was the only coworker I’ve ever had who ended up refusing to speak to me or even acknowledging my existence. This came about because I wrote a TV Guide-type app for Blackberry which our client loved and insisted on having added to their corporate app. The UX guy insisted that no app could be produced unless it was preceded by a formal design document, so he was forced into the situation of having to produce a design document for an app that had already been written, which completely broke his brain. Or rather, he was forced into ordering someone else to do this, since as I mentioned he never actually did anything himself.
He eventually left because he got a job offer for way more money lol. I guess I shouldn’t make fun of somebody who had the system figured out far better than me.
lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de
on 30 Aug 07:19
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I would never be able to explain coherently the difference between UX and UI people.
In theory, UX deals with the psychology behind it: What do people want that our product can provide? Does our product communicate that it can do so? Do people understand how to use the product? Does the product guide them through usage helpfully? Are they satisfied with the result?
Perhaps most nebulously: How do they feel before, while and after using the product, independent of the product itself, and how does that impact their experience? For instance, if you’re buying a train ticket, you might already be stressed and annoyed, so you’ll have less patience.
Source: My wife, who had UX as the focus of her undergrad.
In practice, a lot of people are like you in that they don’t really know or grasp the field, particularly managers who aren’t qualified to make the hiring decisions they do and accordingly there’s always gonna be people capitalising on that ambiguity and grifting their way to a cushy “I’m important and get to have a say, so pay me well” job.
I thiiiink the thing with UX is that they consider overall usability and click paths, while UI is more down in the reeds and looks at more specific things like alignment, design language and color choices. The line between seems pretty blurry though, and how it works in practice probably differs widely between companies.
A good UX/UI team can make or break a project. As a Frontend-focused software dev, that kinda hurts admitting. It’s just always very frustrating to deal with them, because designers are specialized in design. So they neither know about technical limitations that make trivial seeming things hard (like conditionally changing a buttons color based on server state) but they also don’t know about technical “freebies” that the libraries we use give us (like just telling a component that they can overflow and render things wherever you want in ways that Figma would never allow you to design). So talking to them is hard, which leads to a spiral of never talking to them, fucking up the UX, and then dodging them while they try to get the UX fixed. That just sucks for everyone involved.
Hating the Design Team is apparently such a universal experience that Josh W Comeau has a great article on it. Really worth the 15min read, if you want to improve your relationship with the design team!
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
on 30 Aug 10:03
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like just telling a component that they can overflow and render things wherever you want in ways that Figma would never allow you to design
This is probably the one reason I hate designers the most. My personal biggest gripe about mobile apps (and desktop apps for that matter) is when there is plenty of screen space available to show a long piece of text (like the name of a song or movie, for example) but the allocated display area is small and the text is just truncated with ellipses. I had the experience more than once of being handed a design like this and simply modifying it to flow and allow full display of the text although this made the height of the element variable (usually not even requiring any special code or library, just HTML which handles this automatically). The designers always objected to this modification and insisted that it be removed, and the managers always backed them up on the grounds that my modification would take too long to implement - even though it had already been implemented (trivially) and would take even more time to remove.
That is to say, the designers always objected when I was foolish enough to mention that I’d done it. I did eventually learn that lesson.
Plurrbear@lemmy.world
on 29 Aug 17:27
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Drumpf serving as US “President”…
Smeagol666@mander.xyz
on 29 Aug 18:05
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Firemen hate pedophiles
Teachers hate pedophiles
Doctors hate pedophiles
Lawyers hate pedophiles
Liberals hate pedophiles
Conservatives hate pedophiles
Independents hate pedophiles
Where’s the fucking list Donny? Give us the list you fat orange fuck. We know you’re on it, and so do you. How did you think this was going to pan-out, dumbass?
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
on 29 Aug 18:17
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Conservatives hate pedophiles
Unless it’s their own, then “he’s saving a young girl from extreme poverty”/“she’s teaching a lucky boy a special lesson”/“was a human after all, no one is perfect”.
Bill Clinton would be unsurprising. He might be just a run of the mill philanderer, though. I haven’t seen any legitimate reason to suspect Biden. Of course I spent 20 years thinking Michael Jackson was just a weird dude with a Peter Pan complex and might legitimately not have been a pedo, so maybe I just don’t have a very good pedodar.
I was never sure about MJ, but I know that he was physically and sexually abused by members of his family. Dershowitz tried to push for lowering the age of consent to 14. Bill Gates was on the “Lolita Express”. No one associated with Epstein that went to his island is not a pedo, or at least a pedo enabler.
Epstein “best friend” Trump chief among them, still working to help actual real life adults who have molested minors evade justice. Trump has always publicly lusted after under age girls, including famously his own daughter.
I agree. Trump is definitely a fucking pedo. I don’t understand why he kept pushing the “Epstein List” with his base only to try and gaslight them about it now. I think he may have overestimated his toadies’ competence level in trying to delete himself from it while implicating his political rivals.
This is exactly it, I think. Or maybe he’s just in it so much that there’s not a lot left without him.
TheDoozer@lemmy.world
on 30 Aug 08:24
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I haven’t seen anything related to Biden, but I haven’t heard a single person, on any side if any aisle, defending Clinton. It’s always just seemed like a failed “gotcha” attempt on the right, because most everyone to the left of “I’ll vote for anything with an R next to their name” would have no issue throwing offenders from their own side in jail along with the others.
We can put “most” in front of all of these categories. Acting like there are no liberal or independent ones is the equivalent of enabling them. Put them all in prison no matter what political affiliation.
Yeah, because they are hebephiles and the pedoes defile the kid before they can.
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com
on 30 Aug 13:13
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Where’s the fucking list Donny?
So, we’re positive there’s a secret list now instead of a wild claim out of the right-wing conspiracy hole that Donny played up to undermine the establishment & bolster MAGA votes like the press has been saying months ago?
I understand it’s a convenient weapon to turn against Donny, and it’d be funny if his coalition imploded over an unsatisfiable demand he campaigned on, but they’re not here on lemmy, so why is this here?
*child molesters. Many (if not most) who sexually abuse children are not sexually attracted to children. Many who are sexually attracted to children do not abuse children.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
on 29 Aug 18:19
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Proctologists hate things without a flared base.
“An apple a day keeps the doctor away, but not this way!”
They are incredibly rude to the families receiving financial assistance, it takes 3 months for them to pay us, and did you know that if you don’t have a will they cut your step-children out of the process entirely?
We had one gentleman in our care whose only living family was his step-daughter. Because there were no blood relatives and no will the Public Guardian took control of his disposition and the step-daughter had no say in anything that happened with him. Wasn’t allowed to keep a portion of the ashes, the Funeral Director had to fight just to allow the step-daughter a brief final visitation.
This is also true for children under 18. Your 17 year old child has no say in your disposition if you have no other living relatives.
Have a will people, if for no other reason than to allow your loved ones to decide how they will grieve rather than some indifferent bureaucrat.
insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world
on 29 Aug 21:06
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If they want a fancy casket and a large service maybe. It is rare to have a contract that large. Usually it’s in the $3000 - $5000 range, but anything covered by the government is less than $1500. (We also don’t have the cheapest prices in town)
It never occurred to me that a government would pay a funeral home, but now that I think about it, it makes perfect sense for a government to collectively pay for the disposal of human remains, since everyone needs it, and it can’t be abused.
Not everyone is eligible, but if the family has no money to pay for it the government pays for basic services. If the family has funds available they have to pay but I believe they get reimbursed for some amount.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
on 29 Aug 20:24
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Arborists hate Bradford pear trees. They’re the ones that have white flowers and smell like cum. That’s not even why we hate them though.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world
on 29 Aug 20:58
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It’s an invasive species and they grow with very poor structure so that they basically collapse in a pile of broken limbs after a couple of decades. And the nurseries marketed them heavily for a while so they’re planted everywhere. Pain in the ass to work with.
They make fantastic smoke though. Absolutely the best free meat smoking wood out there, because you can always find it in piles at the ends of people’s driveways for the trash to pick up.
Honestly one of my favorite trees for exactly this reason.
Haha, it’s a fruit tree so it smokes similar to an applewood.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
on 29 Aug 21:33
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I wrote a mobile app years ago for a company that surveyed power lines to figure out what trees had to be cut away. They gave me a list of something like 800 tree species and I was like “do you guys really know what all these trees look like?” They did, it was a very impressive knowledge set.
A fun fact about power lines in rural areas: property owners generally get compensated monetarily when their trees have to be trimmed for this, and the amount they get is dependent on the species of tree. So the surveyors would usually find all kinds of incredibly exotic shit planted directly under the lines, basically a cash crop for people living in the middle of nowhere. This is probably a huge and under-appreciated factor in the spread of invasive species.
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works
on 30 Aug 01:48
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That’s gorgeous, I love the unintended consequences
BurningRiver@beehaw.org
on 29 Aug 22:42
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I had one of these in front of my house, and every spring I wondered why I smelled crusty underwear in my living room. The day I finally had it removed was one of the happiest of my life.
lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de
on 30 Aug 21:18
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Some house nearby must have one of those in their garden, because there’s a section of the road where I always catch that odour. Thanks for pointing it out to me, now I’ll look for the tree next time I have to pass through.
There’s one automated system I need to call regularly at work that does not give me the option of dialing numbers and forces me to speak to it. It lists the options it can understand, but I can’t just press a number to move on. Then it asks me to say and spell my first name, then say my last name (which it guesses the spelling of incorrectly) and pretends to type while it’s processing. Why are we doing this?
SLTs hate pacifiers. They’re horrible for a child’s teeth, leads to costantly open mouths, are bad for posture etc… Most patients’ parents who come into therapy are good about weaning their kids but some don’t and don’t know about the harm either
As the other commenter said. Alternatives are also SLP - speech and language practitioner/pathologist, but I don’t think there’s a standardised name that’s always used in English. “Logopedics” is probably not used that often in English compared to “Logopädie” in German
I too have configured a wsus server, that was about the experience I had.
rockerface@lemmy.cafe
on 30 Aug 08:48
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Can relate
lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de
on 30 Aug 13:07
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We have one app where client management can’t globally disable update checks or notifications, but also, the updates aren’t critical enough to constantly validate and roll out.
So we get that “update available” badge in the app and can’t do anything about it. Probably not an issue for most people, since they already do updates only when they’re forced to, but annoying to the few who even look at those notifications.
Windows and Microsoft in general does things to a man.
DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
on 30 Aug 04:56
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More like a love and hate relationship. I normally turn off my work computer and turn on my gaming one. Most of my time I am using one. Or a pocket computer some call it smartphone.
I hate that computers=troubleshooting, to the point where I won’t buy stuff with unnecessary computer electronics in it. Its getting to the point where I look at a product and just convert it in my head to however long I think it will take out of my life to troubleshoot it repeatedly.
But yes, I still work in IT by choice, for some reason.
Jackcooper@lemmy.world
on 30 Aug 02:37
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Pharmacy: PBMs
chuymatt@startrek.website
on 30 Aug 02:47
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All medical folks hate those bastards. The highest driver of increased prices, and only serves as the middle man.
lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de
on 30 Aug 14:04
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In the United States, a pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) is a third-party administrator of prescription drug programs.
[…]
PBMs play a role as the middlemen between pharmacies, drug manufacturers, wholesalers, and health insurance plan companies.
Parasites who make money off of ripping off patients and fucking over pharmacists. They are the rotten core of the US healthcare system and the primary facilitators of the exploitation machine turning your misery into profit.
They negotiate cheap prices from the manufacturers, charge the pharmacies (and by extension the patients) an arm and a leg and pocket the difference.
I believe they’re also the ones that argue with the pharmacist whether the patient really needs that expensive life-saving medication their insurance doesn’t want to cover, because they get kickbacks for saving them money. Sure, you might have cancer, but have you tried Yoga instead of chemo?
Dr. Glaucomflecken has a nice video on it as part of his series on US healthcare.
As a pharmacist I’ll give this my stamp of approval.
Only part I’d throw into this short write up is that 80% of the market is 3 guys - CVS Caremark, Cigna Express Scripts, and Optum. And they all steer to THEIR pharmacies and use this to continue the theft (such as Express Scripts paying a pharmacy in the Tricare military program 1% on a drug of what they pay themselves (using government money, of course)).
Honestly, I’d just rather not have any except ones I’m working on. Sterility requirements bring in a lot of headaches.
A decent lab requires several intermediate clean zones and several layers of sterile coats, plus if anything opens outside the flow cabinet, it’s as good as empty, except now you also get to manage the contamination of the surroundings.
And some molds are REALLY sturdy.
DozensOfDonner@mander.xyz
on 30 Aug 06:51
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Neurophysiologist hate action potentials.
To be fair, just because you (generally, if you do cool stuff) want to sort the signals you recorded from a brain, a lot of times this messy annoying and takes up a lot of time. Saw quite some people get pretty mad about sorting spikes
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip
on 30 Aug 06:51
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Video game content creators hate reading ( especially controls ).
Edit:
There are plenty of times I’ll watch someone play a game and then get confused about how to do something in it because they either don’t look at the controls in settings or breeze past it or don’t read what a quest entails. They just play on in a braindead like trance and get confused and angry as to why the game that gives you everything you need to know doesn’t tell them something vital like a certain control they need.
This is basically why I can’t watch any “variety” streamers. They are, without exception, absolutely awful at learning new games or even just understanding what’s happening on screen.
You’d think that would be antithetical to having your livelihood hinge on playing a wide swathe of games, but here we are.
Steamers that focus on a specific game/genre thankfully tend to have some idea what they’re doing.
derpgon@programming.dev
on 30 Aug 09:11
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I played games all my life, and it always baffled me how some streamers can master one game over several years and then be completely unusable in another. Like bruh, it is still a game, it is not THAT different. Sure, they might suck because they didn’t master the mechanics yet, but struggling with basic controls for an hour? They gotta be playing it…
Throw me into a game, and if the controls make sense it will probably be second nature to me in 15 minutes for me.
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip
on 30 Aug 09:51
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Throw me into a game and if the controls make sense it will probably be second nature to me in 15 minutes for me.
That’s how I feel with just about any platformer that don’t have tank controls. Whether or not I’m good at said game is a whole different story…
I think most people avoid games that are so different from what they have played before that they dont know where to even begin. This happened with baldurs gate 3 a lot because it was so popular but also a new genre for most.
Do you still learn games quickly if they are entirely foreign to you? Last couple examples for me were satisfactory and minecraft, and both took quite a while to become proficient in.
All that said, I dont think variety streamers are playing complicated or complex games with long learning curves to begin with, so them struggling at normal platformers and such is pretty ridiculous.
Usually boils down to a given category and combination of main elements. Open world, survival, crafting, automation, FPS, rogue lite/like, RPG, inventory management, RTS, puzzle, first/third person, action combat, tat target, top down, isometric, etc.
Of course, there are heavy outliers, but those usually require heavy wiki / youtube use to even get into. Same with spreadsheet simulator games where mastery does not necessarily come with time but understanding of hidden mexhanics and synergies.
As an example, I used to play WoW a lot and raided a lot, then got back into GW2 after 10 years (where I didn’t do any dungeons or big raids, and if I did I couldn’t remember), and didn’t have problems with mechanics as others who were playing for several years. The mechanics just make sense, even when it is a new one - stay out of red circles, stack during attacks that split damage, damage phases etc.
When I got into Valheim, I already knew what would be needed without having to see any tutorials - build a house, make a farm, roughly where to look for what, and how to find info correctly.
There is not much I havent explored in my younger days, and throwing me into an FPS game I haven’t played would probably mean I’d be in the top quarter on my team in two or three games.
When started Helldivers 2, I could no problem take on diff 8 (out of likr 10 or 11) and stay up to speed with others way before I unlocked it, as lower difficulties did not pose much of a challenge besides not having the top gear unlocked.
Sure, I won’t know immediately what to do or how to control the character, but when I see a streamer struggling to clear content and see they throw points into defense on an attack character especially when it HIGHLIGHTS the recommended stats (looking at Clair Obscur), I just wanna tip my eyeballs out.
I am usually having a hard time with choices regarding optimization, like when I get to choose “do you want 1 level up or 10 attack power”, bitch I dunno. But we are back at spreadsheets.
Their livelihood doesn’t hinge on playing the game. That’s just incidental. They depend on interaction with the audience and stopping to read and understand something is dead air.
That’s a fair point. Which I guess changes my reasoning from “I don’t watch them because they’re bad at games” to “I don’t watch them because they are insufferable clowns”.
I look at controls in settings but all this time I assumed that was because I’m dumb. I thought “I was obviously supposed to know how controls work, because I need to go into a menu that is for changing controls, to see what controls are. If developers thought there was something that I couldn’t know without looking at the control map, it would have been in a top level menu called control/key map for me to have a quick look”.
Witziger_Waschbaer@feddit.org
on 30 Aug 11:20
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I tend to think that’s kinda intentional. Drives up engagement by people telling them how to play in the chat. Also makes people think that they can do better and buy the game.
Electricd@lemmybefree.net
on 30 Aug 17:07
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Damn, you created a doubt in me
Would all of this be a giant lie? AM I THE PRODUCT? (always was)
MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca
on 30 Aug 07:13
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actual work.
sleepmode@lemmy.world
on 30 Aug 07:18
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Everyone hates Sales except C-suite.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
on 30 Aug 07:29
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i thought you were going to say AI for the moment, that seems to be all the rage for csuites and ceos.
quetzaldilla@lemmy.world
on 30 Aug 07:31
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Accounting:
Intuit products. They mislead people into thinking they are saving money by not paying an accountant or taking a class or two at the community college.
Depending on the situation, it can result in heavy fines and fees when the books or tax returns need to be corrected.
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
on 30 Aug 12:48
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As an IT person: Intuit products.
Their support sucks and unless it’s operating as designed, you basically can’t get any answer more specific than “call support” online, and when you do decide to call them, the IT guy can never get answers unless the account holder is on the line because they refuse to talk to anyone who isn’t on the account and they refuse to add the IT guy to the account.
Also, QuickBooks desktop is basically dead. There will be no 2025 version as far as I’m aware. They’re forcing everyone into QuickBooks online.
Also, their automated file doctor tools are basically useless, rebuilding a file has a good chance of breaking it, requiring intervention from the data services team.
They also seem to have no idea what automation is, and have little to no shits to give over making deployment and management any easier/simpler for the IT staff that needs to support their product.
But at least with Adobe, their support actually knows things, and there’s an admin console where I can see what’s happening with my team subscriptions.
They’re expensive as all fuck, but that’s not my problem. That’s a problem for the company.
I like the one guy who said he pays taxes so that he can have civilization. It kinda sucks a company has near-absolute monopoly of tax-return software, and thus I’m interested if there’s a FOSS alternative to that.
I was in a waiting room at a hospital recently, and there was a homeless person trying to get out of the heat there as well. He was talking about how he hasnt eaten in days and he doesnt know what hes going to do. Not five feet from him is multiple vending machines filled with food and drinks, just a thin piece of glass barricading them in.
Seeing both of those things next to each other at the same time made me so angry. I dont really know what I’m angry at or who needs to fix it, but I know there’s a problem there that should be fixed.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
on 30 Aug 11:39
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lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de
on 30 Aug 12:18
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Entitled customers of any flavour are awful. It’s one thing to know what you want and to decide whether something is worth your money, but it’s another to demand people cater to your specific taste and be a dick about it, as if the devs’ time and effort wasn’t worth anything.
And particularly annoying in my opinion are those who think they know how to fix a given issue, call you an idiot for not “just” doing that and have no idea of the constraints and decisions that might preclude or complicate that “simple fix”.
Some may think this is woo woo or superstition, but I lost count of how many times I’ve been like, “why are all the kids acting crazy (even the ones who are normally sane)?” and it turns out it’s a super moon or just a regular full moon.
I think it’s because kids still have that animal brain that sometimes overrides their logical brain.
Electricd@lemmybefree.net
on 30 Aug 16:57
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From Wikipedia
Psychologists, however, have found that there is no strong evidence for effects on human behavior around the time of a full moon.[12]
Probably a case of: only people that experience out of the ordinary rates or behaviors around those periods or days will speak up about it due to the phenomenon having some popularity, while others forget or don’t talk about it.
It seems that not a lot of people care about this, and the subject suffers from low sample sizes in my opinion (often around a few thousands at best). Due to the highly random nature of these events, I believe big sample sizes should be required.
Electricd@lemmybefree.net
on 30 Aug 18:43
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UTC
But dealing with timezone conversions and daylight savings is a pain. Like if you make a recurring task every day BASED on the user’s timezone, it’s annoying because of daylight savings
I would guess that in Data Science some things would require you to use local timezone because they are dependent on the actual time of day, and some would require synchronization so use of UTC. Also, some timezones are way off the sunlight time and would skew the data that has dependency on daylight and not on hours
multifariace@lemmy.world
on 30 Aug 17:06
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I blame designers for everything. Keeps the fads and fashion for the well-to-do. The average person needs function first. Why would anything I want to buy for regular use be available seasonally or only come in over the top fancy plastic shapes with weird colors and breaks with less than 100 hours of use. I have a kitchen and office because I use them, not because it accents my overpriced home. I have worked in merchandising from many angles and it sickens me. Even what should be simple packaging on almost all retail products is overdesigned and printed full of lies. And the worst part is the cost of the product is directly related to design. Look at how cheap some knock-offs can be produced. I would never presume the engineer to be the source of the overpriced malfunctions of consumerism.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
on 30 Aug 17:24
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I think the average consumer simply believes its not legal to lie on packaging like that. They might not have even asked the question of whether its true or not.
As a former tech manager, I’d argue you’re a pretty shit manager if you tell your people how to solve a problem. Guide, inform, clarify, help remove obstacles etc. etc., but the solution is for the engineers to find.
Professorozone@lemmy.world
on 31 Aug 11:17
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Look, I don’t wish to be insulting but with a comment like that, I find it hard to believe you worked in any business. While engineers maintain some level of control over product design, like making the product actually function (although I’ve even seen that thwarted by management) they do not usually have the last say in things like ergonomics, interoperability, improvements that cost extra, appearance, business development and many other design parameters.
By management I should point out that I am including anyone who is above the design engineer in the process.
I’ve seen business development guys promise customers impossible functionality because “that’s what I thought they would want.”
I’ve seen schedules created by systems engineers that could not be met if we lived in a Star Trek universe.
I’ve been in meetings where production logic was similar to; if one woman can give birth to a child in 9 months, nine women can give birth to a child in one month.
I’ve seen budgets slashed to the bone or critical people removed from projects for a host of reasons, good or bad.
In an actual example I was in a meeting where the manager of business development didn’t know what the term PC Card slot meant. When he was presented with the product design in a meeting, he asked where the PC Card slot was. So the engineer pointed out that it was internal to the unit, on the motherboard where they were always placed. He did not like this because there was no actual slot on the outside. When it was pointed out that that wasn’t really possible without completely redesigning both the motherboard and the enclosure he insisted we put a slot on the outside. When told that the PC Card slot couldn’t be reached from ANY slot on the outside of the enclosure he made us redesign the end plate to incorporate a PC Card shaped slot that served no purpose except to stroke his ego, and add a costly change to a product with existing tooling and necessitate a PC Card slot sized plug to seal the unit against moisture be designed. We, from that day forward, referred to that end cap as the vanity plate.
Yeah a good manager would do all of those things you said assuming his manager doesn’t stop him, but that’s the point, managers suck. That’s why we hate then.
What I wrote was based on my personal experience, managing engineers on product teams and how I approached the role as manager.
We owned the products we developed and maintained and as a team we enjoyed great autonomy, and so we were spared customers/clients asking for the ridiculous, and I can probably count on one hand (ok, maybe two hands) the times we just had to do something because corporate said so.
We always pushed for engineers’ involvement in product and feature development, planning/roadmaps, and they did indeed have great influence over the what and the how. Push back from engineers on products’ suggestions/ideas/plans were frequent, and attention was paid.
This was for a company in Norway, where perhaps top down management isn’t as prevalent as in many other places, and employees are typically encouraged to speak up and get involved. Again, in my experience.
I found that being there to support and assist my engineers, not micro managing them, gave great results in terms of team culture and work satisfaction. I made it clear that I would always have their backs as long as they didn’t intentionally fuck something up.
I fully realize this isn’t the case everywhere, nor even typical.
All said, I really enjoyed being a manager. On some level it triggered a father’s instincts in me, and I took great pride in looking after people and seeing what they were capable of building as a team.
Clueless people who want help yes. Clueless people who are confidently wrong and refuse to listen to reason or accept personal responsibility for the fact they broke their stuff, no.
Manufacturers do it for liability and doctors for that one idiot out of twenty.
potato_wallrus@lemmy.world
on 30 Aug 16:12
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Cardiologists probably hate fried food and energy drinks
hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works
on 30 Aug 16:39
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The amount of people absolutely POUNDING several event drinks a day is astounding.
I have a heart condition and couldn’t drink them if I wanted to, without dying, so they don’t believe when I say it’s bad for them.
GreenShimada@lemmy.world
on 30 Aug 17:14
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Yeah, WTF is up with this? The people that will drink 3 or 4 cans of Monster a day? JFC, that shit’ll kill you, man!
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
on 30 Aug 17:22
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I worked with someone who would bring 4 cans of monster to work every day, but he told me he was essentially addicted. He said he’d get pounding headaches if he didnt drink them now. Its probably not all that different from a cocaine habit.
GreenShimada@lemmy.world
on 30 Aug 20:27
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Caffeine habits are very real, and holy shit, that’s like 6-7 coffees a day. If he went cold turkey, it would be a week of hell at home, vomiting from the migranes.
I think knowing him made me reframe how I view caffeine. I treat it as a potent drug and it seems to affect me that way now, so I barely use it.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
on 30 Aug 21:42
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When I went off caffeine, it took me down with 3 days of flu like symptoms and headaches. Grouchy asshole is an understatement. I was drinking 2 coffees a day, I can’t imagine.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
on 31 Aug 11:21
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it’s just caffeine, i’ll never understand why people can’t just buy a bottle of caffeine pills and get the precise amount they want, it would let him slowly decrease the amount until he isn’t dependent any more.
Its really hard to be in charge of your own taper, self control is usually lacking in substance abuse situations.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
on 31 Aug 12:44
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i mean it’s caffeine, not nicotine, and even with nicotine a good amount of people manage to taper down usage. You don’t get addicted to caffeine, you get dependent, which is much easier to handle.
coffeine makes me sleepy so energy drinks only give me placebo and it doesn’t matter that coffeine barely affects me, could not care less about the caffeine, but
one can usually has an entire day’s maxiumum amount of sugar for an adult in it, that is an insane amout to drinking in an hour or so. and that’s not to even mention that whatever they put in them seems to enjoy making kidney stones!
those things should not be a regular part of anyone’s diet
Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works
on 30 Aug 21:43
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Then you see the cardiologist at lunch pounding an energy, and stuffing whatever the fastest option in their hospital is, down their throat.
lemmysquezzy@lemmy.world
on 30 Aug 19:14
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Excel users: Blank cells in worksheets, leading / trailing spaces, broken desktop links in shared files, bad formatting, bad conditional formating, merged cells*, locked workbooks from 5 years ago someone lost the password too, looking at you Bob!
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
on 31 Aug 06:02
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I thought they’d absolutely love objects without flared bases - keeps them employed, and entertained!
spacesatan@leminal.space
on 30 Aug 07:50
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I, a warehouse worker, hate OXO for slapping every warning label under the sun on their boxes. I saw a box of oven mitts labeled “fragile” along with like five other warnings. Not even a one size fits all box either, this had custom printing for the product.
Also Crown for making equipment that is so ineptly fly-by-wire there is what feels like half a second delay between input and response.
People saying users are the bane of IT professionals are just antisocial whiners. The real bane of an IT professional is fucking printers. Fuck printers.
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Apples unite them all
Psychologists hate cigars
What did you say about my mother?
takes a long drag
I was thinking about your dad actually.
Except Freud who famously loved them
Game programmers hate graphical designers.
What if graphic design is my passion?
Then WordArt loves you too
Web devs too
everyone hates web devs
especially other web devs
And we hate game designers
dentists hate sugar drinks (I’m with them on this one) ophthalmologists hate screens urologists hate themselves
I thought you meant window screens for a second and was picturing some kind of weird eye injury epidemic involving enthusiastically looking out windows
It’s actually almost a thing - in Moscow State University, during world cup a decade ago, lazer show was projected right onto students dorm. Not that students didn’t protest, it’s just those who did were taken by police. Not to mention that many students had babies, and few were fans of loud noises or football for that matter. Fortunately these people were smart enough to save their eyes. Oh, good old stories from hell.
Cardiologists hate deep-fried food.
youtu.be/CBv4bO_jC8I 27:09
Really? I feel like doctors really love all the stuff that they tell people not to do.
Death Star structural engineers hate the waste management guys
Ornithologists hate cats.
Simple, common bird appreciators too
Don’t forget reptile and insect appreciators, we also hate cats
Not to forget a lot of cats, who also hate cats
Cats or people who allow their cats to be outdoors?
Yeah, I reread my comment and it can be interpreted either way, but it is definitely the second one.
There are also cats that wouldn't even catch a cold, but the issue is mostly with either stray cats or those that are allowed out.
Me too
And anyone in a field related to studying living creatures in nature hate pesticides/herbicides.
Because pesticides harm everything that eats the thing that eats the thing that eats the thing that eats the pesticide.
Same thing with lead shot accumulating in large birds.
Wait, so the lead shots imbed in the animals that eat the lead shot large birds? And again for the animals that eat the animals that eat the lead shot large birds?
Is that… me?
If an animal gets shot with lead, survives and runs away, there is now a wounded animal or an animal carcass containing lead somewhere in the wild.
If it is wounded or freshly dead a carnivore will eat it and accumulate lead. That may be large carnivore or a smaller carnivore that later gets eaten by a bigger one. Birds tend to have stronger stomach acid that most mammals, allowing them to dissolve the lead better.
Vultures having it the worst as they will eat any carcass and have the strongest acid.
Ents also hate Orcs
Who downvoted you? Saruman himself?
It legit took me longer than it should have to realize it wasn’t talking about the tree people.
Engineers hate architects
i love systemd
You fail the test.
I love systemd too but I can’t remember how to use journald :(
I hated Product Managers as first but learned how they can be a valuable asset. Especially when dealing with customers or executives. They can handle all the crap throw at us and just filter down what we need know.
EMS hate motorcycles and decorative throw rugs.
Why do they hate the decorative throw rugs?
Slip and fall danger.
I know 2 people that both had an accident this way. One tore off a tendon around the knee, the other fractured their hand from trying to cushion their fall. And I don’t know that many people.
Yeah, people don't realize you can add non-slip materials to the bottom to minimize the risk.
Ugh, if only that worked for longer than like a month.
Eventually all these materials you can throw under throw rugs to make them stickier end up failing. Catastrophically.
Make sure to get a throw rug that has the non-slip feature sewn in. Make sure it’s nice and heavy too and never put it in the dryer (it’ll ruin the non-slip part). You should probably air dry throw rugs anyway, actually 🤷
Fell on a throw rug yesterday
The rug threw you. That’s why they’re called that!
Some real TIL gems in this thread.
Get receive rugs instead, got it
Extremely common trip and fall hazard, frequently in the homes of old people with bad balance and fragile bones
I hate them too. Some people insist they actually increase safety
and anything vaugly shaped like a butt plug but is not a butt plug.
Also, actual butt plugs. Yes, they can and they will slip inside to the point you can’t get them out.
ALWAYS USE A FLAIRED BASE. Ideally a very wide flaired base.
very important lol
You ever realize that a guy is the flaired base to his penis?
The real life pro tip, in the replies as always
Flair: the 32 pins and badges at TGIFriendly’s
Flare: a widening at the base
Ah, thank you I missed that :)
Not with that attitude
Reminded me of this post: lemmy.world/post/34770628
And post-shit stand ups.
Potty humour?
Nephrologists love donor cycles though
Agree on the rugs but motorcycles are more of a “I hate people” thing. I’m an EMT that dailies a bike and tons of my coworkers ride too
and those huge mirrors thar you just leaning against the wall
Do the floor rugs trip people?
Software Engineers hate stand-up
We’re lured into a false sense of excitement, thinking it’s comedy. Instead, it’s tragedy.
CS people hate the printer
HP printers in particular.
Weirdly, i don’t hate HP printers (at least, the FutureSmart ones). Xerox can fuck right off with all those restarts just to change fucking settings though
People who have worked with printers know that HP is bad but Xerox is worse.
Xerox is a bad copy of themselves from decades prior.
It's a matter of Consumer vs Corporate
In the consumer space, HP is the worst. In the corporate world, Xerox is the worst (iirc Xerox doesn't even make consumer grade printers)
I work in a print shop and i also hate the printer.
Fuck you Xante. I hate you so much
…and a lot of them hate the end-user, too. Why must we involve people in the whole computer thing? Isn’t an abacus and a box of crayons enough?
Bold of you to assume the end user can handle crayons
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CSIT but yeah. I work in a company with people with masters in CS from Ivy League schools and they don’t understand the first thing about how hardware or their OS works. Common misconception…which, in and of itself, is sad as hell because one of the course requirements (at least when I was working on my CS degree) was Operating System Concepts & Design.
PC load letter? What the fuck does that mean??
No idea, but we treat them all the same. 230vAC to the USB port.
Try this and the result may shock you!
Doctors hate it!
It means it’s time to take that copier to pasture.
500years of printing and this is the best we got… Smh
Well that is accurate…
Game developers hate players. They keep breaking our beautiful games and optimizing the fun out of them!
playersspeedrunnersIf your players are breaking your game, try to make a mechanic out of the emergent behaviour
pulmonologists hate vapes
Data? No, because there is none. And I have read every.single.study. They are all fucked in some way or another whether it’s methodology or the stats or the sample size/composition. Not a single real in vivo study. None. There is exactly one researcher in Greece doing decent work, and that’s it. I took a career change from my previous and now present career and worked in pharma and biotech research.
Are you a lung doctor or are you someone who vapes and wants to be able to maintain the illusion that it isn’t harmful?
I am someone who used to do medical research for a lot of money. I’ve interviewed chairs of FDA committees, trial designers, and active trial leads on phase III (mostly) research in pharma and biologics. I still have access to PupMed via my old friends.
Inb4 popcorn lung lmao.
(Diacetyl, the chemical responsible, is also found in cigarettes, 2,000x more than in vape juice, and cigarettes have never caused popcorn lung. The only recorded case afaik comes from the powder form being used in a popcorn factory with no respirators, and it acted like asbestos sorta where it settles in the lungs. That’s a far cry from the liquid form that was in some vape juice before the freakout, which has never shown to cause popcorn lung, just like it doesn’t with cigarettes.)
Inb4 vitamin
A oilE acetate [fixx’d, was in a rush and done fucked up. Close enough though lol.](Black market weed carts made by some dickhead in his garage who didn’t know what he was doing. Legalize it already ffs.)
My guy/gal/nonbinary pal: pls see the references in this medicpro.london/…/vaping-and-popcorn-lung-separat… Diacetyl has been widely banned since 2014 in all but the most trash Chinese vape juice, and quality vendors never used it in the first place.
Also the supposed cases of popcorn come from one source. Some dude in California who cut his cannabis juice with it, and in every single case the kids that got sick were using his juice in vape pens, not actually vaping. It’s Friday night here and I’d rather not track the story down but if you really want it I’ll find it.
As a former life long smoker, vaping (which is the front line treatment for cessation in the UK) saved my life. Now, however, the shops pushing disposable vapes with super high nicotine salts on to kids - which is illegal almost everywhere - they need to die in a fire. The kids don’t get hooked on "vape;’ they get hooked on nicotina because those damn things are the equivalent of smoking two or three regular cigarets in one puff.
Thanks for backing up what I said.
Though it was never popcorn lung from the weed vapes, like I said that idiot used vitamin E acetate (think I mistyped and said A earlier but same diff.) Didn’t know he was in CA though I thought he was midwest.
Former smoker, current vaper. I know inhaling anything other than clean air isn’t good for me, and I know nicotine addiction isn’t good. I plan on quitting, and I’m making decent progress to that point.
But it bugs the shit out of me when people try to act like it’s worse than cigarettes. It’s not. Shitty Chinese vapes marketed to kids that we don’t know the ingredients of? Sure, ban em. Black market vapes made in some dudes garage with oil? Absolutely track em down and end that man’s whole career.
But properly made, regulated vape juice in a rebuildable tank? Leave me the fuck alone. Please. Please do not take the thing that has helped millions of people quit smoking!
Can you link me any decent articles to help the next time someone says some dumb reactionary shit?
Yeah alas the subreddit for it did a lot of the heavy lifting for me - they took apart every study (I helped) and had some good sidebar (or was it pinned, been so long I cannot remember) info to counter the “dumb reactionary shit.” I am pretty sure the sub got baninated, but I haven’t been back to reddit since I rage quit after the API debacle.
When I first started vaping in 2011 (after smoking two packs a day for decades), there were a lot of solid, research-based web boards, but I think social media killed them, as it did so much.
That’s a real shame about the web boards. I miss real forums :(
Can we do this for all the other drugs as well?
lab techs hate improperly collected samples. The people who collect those samples often in turn hate lab techs.
It’s never easy to connect samples properly in the field and it’s never easy to draw conclusions from imperfect sampling.
I’m in pathology (research, transitioning to medical) so that was my frame of reference here. Its my job take the samples given to the lab and turn them into slides for analysis but tue results are only as good as what I’m given in the first place (crap in, crap out). same with blood draws, urines, anything improperly collected no longer properly represents the thing it came from. Then I have to tell the client that…
As a lab tech, I feel this one.
Just send it back with a derogatory note telling them to take it again.
I spent years in a research path core and am just wrapping up my med lab certification, it amused me when they hired actors to come to our program and we role-played dealing with angry pathologists, fuming nurses ect… Most of my clients have been MSc students or MD/PHD conducting research. they might be experts in their field and conduct these brilliant studies then stumble right at the finish line because sample collection was bungled or something ruined during extraction. I’ve seen some “interesting” DIY fixation and processing protocols to save a little money that did the same thing. I always feel so bad but most people are willing to learn and work with us.
Or bad planners that expect us to do overtime for their mistakes.
IT people hate computers.
IT people hate users. IT people hate other IT people. We’re just a surly lot.
SHUT YOUR DAMN MOUTH!
You just made an enemy for life!
You IT people sure are a contentious bunch.
IT people hate people then? Checks out to me actually
true, but we also hate computers
We hate ones setup by other people or used by other users. Our own network is a glorious shrine to the one true faith.
Can’t argue with that… until something goes wrong and I hate it (really just mad at myself)
“Dammit, what idiot set this up this way?” <checks logs> <you were the last login>
My laptop windows 11? No problem. Anyone elses windows? Fucking burn it.
I’ve had the privilege of working with users with actual computer training. Old ladies who started working on terminals in the 70s and 80s. They were awesome, because they actually understood what they were doing. They could give me an accurate description of what they were doing when shit went wrong. They had real concerns and realistic requests for improvement. And they never blamed the computer when they encountered something they didn’t understand. They’re all dead or retired now.
Todays computer illiterate workforce is doomed to be incompetent because they don’t understand how their main tool works. Nobody bothered to train them.
The complicated thing here is there are so many layers of abstraction to make things easier to use and understand that if you didn’t age with the tech, it’s really hard to fully understand. That’s everything. I see Angular and React developers who don’t understand CSS.
My last position, we had classes that set sizes for everything in multiples of 4 pixels. So size-1 is 4 pixels, size-2 is 8 pixels, etc. And everything was sized with those classes. Which means if you ever wanted to resize anything, you have to go to every element and change the class instead of you know, having input controls have distinct classes.
People are layering on abstraction without understanding why and throwing away all the benefits, time to invent another abstraction layer! I had my tech lead argue with me that this was a better system because “standards”. I’m going to assume the standard was poorly understood because I can’t imagine a multi-billion dollar company hires idiots to set standards.
I got started learning transistors and Boolean algebra and programming an 8-bit cpu in college. Had computers for a few years before that. It’s surprising how many conditionals I see that can be simplified by Boolean algebra.
I don’t actually hate computers, and I try to give IT workers some grace because I’m not always proud of the work I do when I have to finish 3 months of work in two weeks. But I’ve worked with a lot of folks who aren’t curious or looking to learn and improve, and I have to wonder why they ever got into IT in the first place.
For me the worst part of IT is the god damned management. Any possible productivity gains from agile are undercut at every turn by management who has to have a concrete promise of a delivery date before they even define the ask.
Anyway, sorry for the rant. Started my long weekend early and starting a new job next week, so I have a lot of pent up rants from my last company.
We’re all standing on the shoulders of giants, but there are so many layers of giants that it’s hard to see the ground.
Why does it feel like im getting stepped on by giants?
Ahahahahahahaha! Oh man, you got a good laugh out of me this morning 🤣
I mean, there’s idiots and there’s idiots, you know? Yeah those classes should never have existed and maybe that’s evidence enough of idiocy, but there is an abundance of folks smarter than me. Surely they could hire one of them…
nepo. babies. (i put my commwnt in the wrong spot)
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Thing is, back in those days computers were deterministic.
A certain action caused a certain reaction, and always the same reaction (given the same context).
Anyone could learn that, as long as they bothered to read the screen (a surprisingly rare talent, to be fair).
Now, at least on windows, it’s anyone’s guess what random mayhem a certain action might cause, or where the interface to perform that action has gone after the last update, supposing it still exists and the system survived the update.
No one can learn that. And anyone foolish enough to try will certainly be driven insane.
It seems to run on some form of electricity.
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There also so many things restricting the usage of the tool. Every week my scanner tells me it has a new software update and I cannot install a simple update without admin access, so I have to call help desk and have them remote into my computer so they can click the “ok” botton.
Everything is so walled off there’s no reason to learn how any of it works because you have no access. When the security bios update (forget what it was called) fucked everyone’s computers last year I found a fix online and could have easily went to several locations and got them up and running, but no one on site has the access to boot into safe mode and instead we all just sat on hold with help desk for 2 days waiting for IT to do the thing I already knew how to do.
Are you talking about the Crowdstrike incident?
yes
BTKAC error
Correction: IT people hate printers.
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Correction: printers hate people.
PC load letter? What the fuck does that mean?
As a non-IT person, fuck HP in particular.
Fuck printers
Nom one invented a good printer still
I have read this ten times now, and I still can’t figure out what it is supposed to mean…
Printers are known in IT to be a utter pain in the ass. Most brands are also using a lot of proprietary stuff and it limits interoperability. Drivers for example.
Well known example is about ink cartridges. HP added identification chips on them, so if you want to use an other brand, not HP, to fill your printer, you can’t because if no chip is detected despite a cartridge being inserted, the machine will tell you it is not genuine.
Another example with Rycoh. I don’t know if their printers still use this method, so take it as an example of capitalist greed more than a current situation. Laser printers are using a sealed container to process waste created during printing. Rycoh had placed a led detector inside to know when it was full and trigger an alert, stopping the machine and request for a change. Good idea in theory but in practice the detector was placed very oddly or on purpose near or in front of dust intake. So it was bathed very quickly in electrostatic dust and thus triggered the alarm very quickly, even if your container was not fully filled. The only way to solve this was to shake your waste storage, hoping it would clean the led enough to keep going for a few days or change it.
Lastly, I have a Brother printer, bought to a neighbor sale. The oven inside, which is in charge of heating the ink, had a failure. It had melted. For the price, it was a deal. I only needed to buy a new part, unplug it, replace and I had a laser printer with colours. Well, Brother had lightly soldered pins linking the connector to PCB. When I unplugged it, soldering came with it. I contacted a repair store near me telling me they don’t do it and I should ask for a repair to a certified Brother technician. Which is overpriced. I also can’t open it fully as it is placed to be impossible to repair without disassembling half of the machine.
No printer is the same, some brands are better than others. Some are well accepted on Linux with CUPS, some other not. But so far, not one brand impressed me well enough by their design to keep it open, easily fixable and long lasting.
IT people hate other people using a computer
I hate my computer as well. That’s why I have to modify it to something completely different before I am able to use it for basic text editing.
I AM TALKING TO YOU EMACS PUT YOUR BACKUPS SOMEWHERE ELSE BY DEFAULT ALREADY I USE GIT
I once had to watch a co-worker scroll to the bottom of a list using the little arrow buttons on the end of the scrollbar. Clicking, not holding.
That’s what my hell would be like. Doing IT support without being able to wrench the mouse out of their hands.
FUCK PRINTERS
*ZIP*
I’m an IT person and I like computers, as long as they’ve never been turned on and they stay that way.
Many IT people love computers. They hate computers that other people use.
Trauma specialist Doctors hate e-scooters
I have an acquaintance who is learning how to walk and talk again because he hit a pothole on an e-scooter. Wear your helmets, kids!
And bicycle helmets are not rated for the speed e scooters can go. You want a full face motorcycle helmet and motorcycle gloves.
I see so many teenagers screaming down the road at 40mph with no helmet and I clench up. It’s stressful.
People keep saying they’re dangerous but I ride one all the time. I really wish they were as well studied as bikes, where I know the helmet doesn’t help that much when you’re hit in a collision.
A scooter’s wheels have a much smaller diameter, so they’re much more susceptible to rocks and bumps than a bike.
They are also unstable without steering input, unlike bicycles, which makes them way more dangerous. I’d like to see the research.
I guess a point in the scooter’s favor is that you can jump off more easily.
I guess the center of gravity is lower on the scooter too for what it’s worth.
If you’re moving fast, jumping off will not help much. Maybe not getting buried under the bike but not falling full speed
Teachers hate parents.
Vice versa.
Kids are just the middle man.
God, wtf.
We always went out of our way to help the teachers whenever possible. We donated any and all supplies that they asked for and gave them gift cards for Christmas. We supported them actively when they protested for better wages and other benefits.
What sort of monster would hate the very people who you trust with their own children?
The kind of parents that think their little crotchspawn is an angel and every bad grade is the teacher’s fault.
Don’t get me wrong, there are bad teachers (had a couple both as student and as a parent), but mostly are doing their best. Or at least not be purposely bad.
The devil on my kids shoulder killed the angel and then hung herself.
Wow, I always thought every bad grade meant that I needed to get my child more help studying the material that they performed badly on. (Even bad teachers with fair tests can give one a chance to figure out what they are bad at teaching and get my child the help on those subjects outside of their class).
The only type of teacher that I ever had a problem with was one who was not fair in their tests. (Like seriously, it is a math test and their answer is correct but you marked it wrong because they used a different method than the one you taught in class???)
Not saying that teacher didn’t suck, but method can be important in earlier math classes. So much of early math is about developing number sense and just understanding what is being represented by a mathematical statement. If a method is a stand in for a larger level comprehension, say, showing that 3*2 is also represented by three rows of two, ie
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Just regurgitating a memorized number doesn’t show that deeper understanding.
As a parent, I don’t hate the teachers. Other kids parents need to get their shit together though. The amount of homophobia and racism casually thrown around by the other kids is appalling.
Same as it ever was.
Now playing Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime
Got a vasectomy. I broke the cycle yall.
I dunno, geologists kinda love everything.
But then again, we love things most people hate. Like earthquakes and vulcanos. Absolutly amazing stuff for me as a geologist but damn very much uncool for kind of everone else :D
What about buried oil tanks?
Will this blue obsidian crystal amplify my positive energy?
Ok, good point, I don't love the crystals people.
Structural engineers: fire, water, air and earth. They are like the Anti-Avatar
Massage therapists hate spray tans.
Metrologists hate Analysts
All you have to do is rinse the LC with water my guy…
Glass manufacturers hate bubbles.
A lot.
So do economists!
And phlebotomists!
And deep sea divers
…and people that work with resin and 3D printerers.
Linguists hate grammarly
When Reagan said “no child left behind”, he didn’t mean grammarly. That halfwit mess is toxic.
Chefs hate cooking themselves food at home
Not as much as they hate cooking for their own children. The greater the number of children, the more true this is.
My friend’s a chef and his wife is a picky eater and so are the kids. It’s crazy the lengths he goes to to make sure that everyone will eat.
The way I was raised was that I had to eat everything that was given so I’m kinda blown away at this.
This sounds like hell. Picky eaters drive me insane.
Picky eaters are, without exception, some combination of childish, self-absorbed, developmentally-stunted, and incurious. Oh, you “won’t eat” some dish that literally hundreds of thousands of humans eat every day with your special, unique taste buds? Fuck outta here, kid.
Picky eaters hate this truth.
The picky eaters consented to eating the meal. They should have scouted for more intel first.
I’ve recently taken the attitude of “im making insert pretentious food you can eat that or sandwiches”
I was legit like 20 before I realized I could say I didn’t like something and avoid it being cooked for me in the first place.
It’s easier to cook for others than yourself.
Eidunno I’m no chef but I worked a bistro. Then went to it. Like people said it’s users. Always the user.
Nurses are the worst to cook for. Like the cops of women. Not all are shit but the ones who are ruin it for everyone else. Entry level job that gives absolute control over the disenfranchised. Of course there will be bullies.
Are you sure?
Meant caregiver. Hella wrong.
Showed ass oops
Nurses are not entry level lmao
Caregivers.
Very much showed my ass lol
I’m at the hospital as a patient at least once a month. A lot of doctors are bullies, but I’ve yet to see a single nurse that’s so much as rude to me. At most a bit short when they’re stressed, but never more than that.
Someone I’m close with owns and operates a restaurant that puts out high quality food, but at home they mostly live off of grocery store frozen pizza and rotisserie chicken.
Teachers hate AI
Locksmiths hate WD-40
Why this one?
IANAL, but people use it on squeaky hinges and knobs and locks, but it sits in the mechanism and collects dust. It turns into a gummy mess eventually, which is the last thing you would want in a lock.
IANALPL
That reminds me, I haven’t watched one of his videos in a while.
This is it ☝️
You really shouldn’t be using WD-40 for that.
I imagine it gunks up the lock mechanism. I have had to eventually replace locks I used it in.
not a locksmith, but…
One of those candidates for ‘worst memorable phrase in history’ is the old “duct-tape for things that move and shouldn’t and wd-40 for things that should move and don’t”.
WD-40 isn’t a lubricant. It often works to get something un-stuck, but then you need to still clean and lubricate the parts to keep it working.
How do they feel about Ballistol?
Never heard of it, but I use Tri-flow and Houdini liberally. If Ballistol doesn’t leave a residue it’s probably fine
Well it’s an oil that leaves a bit of a layer to protect metal against rust, so probably not lol.
ENTs hate Q-tips?!
That doesn’t make sense to me. But, then again, you are very small.
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People sticking Q-tips in their (E)ars and to a lesser extent, (N)oses and (T)hroats.
You’re absolutely correct, but op is making a joke about Ents from LotR. A cheeky little pun, if you will.
As someone whose name escaped the skipping record that your name is, I concur.
It’s a reference to this character from Catch-22. Unless this is my turn to be wooshed.
I wasn’t making any kind of reference, myself, to be whooshed by. I’ve used this name around for a little while and just wanted to agree with your statement, then noticed the partial similarity in our names and wanted to comment on that, to, as if someone were trying to say my handle but got stuck on an audio loop: “Major— major— major— major—”
Orthopedic surgeons hate motorcycles
But transplant surgeons love them 😇
Orthopaedic doctors hate chiropractors
I work in orthopedics and rehabilitation…for the most part the majority of chiropractors are harmless. If the patient believes a chiropractor is helping manage their pain, I don’t really care about the efficacy of the practice. Plus, most chiropractors are risk adverse enough to know not to work on areas where hardware has been installed.
If we’re sticking to the format of items or activities that are a reason for a lot of our appointments… Ladders, motorcycles, bad drivers, trampolines, and electric scooters and diabetes are probably the top contenders.
Huh, my friend absolutely abhors chiropractics. But I guess also all the family members who don’t listen to her and instead waste money to get their spines fucked with
RFK?
Can confirm, but if it wasn’t him, they’d go out of their way to find someone just as bad.
Auto mechanics hate Fix-a-Flat. I speak from firsthand experience taking off a tire that was full of the stuff.
I feel super sorry for whoever has to do my next tire change, the previous owner of my vehicle (just purchased otherwise it’d already have had a tire change) was using fix-a-flat for top ups so the didn’t have to lug out the air compressor.
I have no idea how much goo is in these tires, but I can only assume they look like the aftermath of a ménage et troi with 3 “Slimers” from ghostbusters.
Why do people do shit like this lmao. I mean I know gas stations gouge the hell out of you to use the air compressor but using FAF to top off your tires is… an interesting way around it.
I’m surprised they could even put anything in the tire even after the first treatment. FAF by its nature seals holes, and usually the valve stem gets clogged as a result.
I can’t imagine it being good for your wheel balance either. But if the ride is smooth then it should be good.
We had a local shop owner killed when airing up a tire with fix-a-flat. His wife ran the shop after his death and she did not mince words when someone asked why the shop wouldn’t patch their tire that had fix-a-flat.
How? Was he working on an industrial tire or something?
I don’t know all the details, just that the tire exploded and killed him.
Academics hate eachother
Lmao true
Data (dwh) people hate Excel
As someone who used to work with “large” (to normal people; 10k-60k rows up to maybe 70 columns) datasets in Excel exclusively, I also hate Excel.
Me too!
I hate working with other people’s spreadsheets.
Or my old spreadsheets.
The worst is “can you just add a small feature” to a huge, sprawling, mission-critical, often reused spreadsheet.
But I love how quick and powerful it is to spin up a new spreadsheet to analyze something or clean up messy data!
dude you can hate but 80% of “data” still.on excel. I’m in my third global company and people still control things on excel. and 5% power bi (some from excel) hahahahaha
Wait you mean your organization doesn’t use some ludicrously expensive hosted database solution or 3 to aggregate data then instead of natively working with the data in that database it gets exported and transformed on a local machine which may or may not havd backups then ask the database people about weird data quirks coming from the local transformations performed on the data
That hit a bit too close to home. 😂
they do but they export it to excel 🤣 not joking, some people export the entire data base of something and just use it on excel because “it’s very easy”
Yep, that’s true haha.
It’s perhaps not so much Excel, as much as it’s just the symptom of a lot of bigger issues: working without version control, without column validation or access control, limited documentation (not necessarily better in data warehouse but at least the functionality is easily accessible), limited automated testing, etc etc.
If only they could keep their data for themselves, then ok. but no no, we have to ingest it, and do work on top of it in dwh, and it just breaks so often due to a variety of different stuff.
Truck drivers hate “four wheelers” because they don’t know how to drive.
When they’re not in their semi they generally drive a four wheeled vehicle their very own self, presumably being hated on by other truck drivers.
eh, other truck drivers aren’t much better. biggest takeaway getting my CDL was realizing just how low the standards are to drive a truck
I’ve always wanted to drive a semi so this may be good
I used to do fleet management. It’s so bad. I never would have believed how many people take clearance signs as suggestions.
And the class D (regular license) drivers test should include a “show me where the truck driver can and can’t see you” portion.
My regular license says class c
Do trucks not have the stickers saying ‘if you can’t see my mirror I can’t see you’ on them? I see that all the time.
I haven’t read the DOT code in a while, so I genuinely don’t recall if they’re mandated, but I recall that all my trucks had them.
This is of absolutely no use in preventing people from a close merge on the passenger side where the driver definitely cannot see. Often the driver’s first indication that this has occurred is the crunch. I’ve never seen one of these accidents that wasn’t completely avoidable.
These drivers wouldn’t care if they knew how to read this sticker.
Drivers hate everyone else on the road.
Photo editors hate:
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RED DWAAAAAAAAAAAAARF!!!
Best live action show ever.
I need to sit down and actually watch Red Dwarf sometime. Like I did once watch the first few episodes when I was a teenager but I was way too young to fully appreciate it
You’re in for a treat, Red Dwarf is great. I loved it as a kid. The newer series they made we’re very decent too.
Enhance! Just keep enhancing!
Some of this is absurd, but I feel like a lot of it is tongue-in-cheek stuff or just “let’s see how far we can push things into ridiculousness before your grandma notices that something’s off”.
Psychoanalysts hate those blotchy black & white images of my mother’s pussy giving birth to my father who is wielding a knife with my name written along the hilt. “Stop bringing these fucking drawings in here!” she yells. God forbid a man have hobbies.
😶
This was just calculatingly unhinged
You’re fascinating.
Going through your profile, I just had to upvote your comments.
Geologists and biologists hate people who stack rocks
biologists too?
sysadmins hate end users because end users suck.
Hear hear
This brought to mind a collection of asshole admin stories from the early internet. With a bit of googling, it was The Bastard Operator From Hell. God, I haven’t thought of those since the 90s. I can’t believe I could even recall something like that.
Anyway, fuck users.
They are still ongoing!
Original author too. He was hired by The Register.
That thing spawned so many fucking great memes before they were even widely called that
I just referred to the BOFH in class last week.
… Nobody caught the reference but it made me happy.
The hate is as old as computing.
@fossilesque i hate phone calls :aneodog_bongo:
Eye doctors hate bungee cords. Be careful with those! ER doctors hate 4th of July.
ER Docters hate
… I think the list might go on and on
Thank you for your service
Electrical engineers hate OrCAD, seriously. I keep a spare file on all of my work computers collecting when I see someone on line saying OrCAD sucks. Brings me comfort when the program crashes for the 5th time that day
I know q-tips aren't safe or whatever but man it feels too good to stop.
What do you mean, not safe? I always thought “do not use in your ear canal” was just a joke they wrote on the packaging. Like, actually good one, what else are you gonna do with it?
They’re also used as cleaning tips for small/targeted applications, especially when you don’t want lint from a Kleenex or paper towel lingering. Makeup application/removal and electronics cleaning, for example.
I think (not a doctor) the ear thing is because if you go too deep you can cause some serious damage, and they can make wax buildup worse by compacting it. If you stay close to the ear opening, and do circular motions to swipe wax away, and clean your ears often enough that you don’t get dense wax build up, and don’t “double dip” to introduce potential pathogens, then I think they’re pretty safe to use? But that’s too many caveats for lots of people, so I think ENTs often deal with people damaging themselves with them.
Q-tips aren’t meant to go in the ear the same way adult novelty toys aren’t meant to go in the butt.
They are called novelty toys because the countries they are made in have laws against adult toys but not novelty items.
That’s my point - Q-tips and novelty toys are both more commonly used for their off-label functionality because listing that on the label is inconvenient for the maker.
Yo don’t actually put those in your butt, they’re not made of body safe materials and will give you ass cancer. Don’t use TPU, TPE, PVC, or tin-cure silicone in your butt. It’s literally made to absorb stuff and putting carcinogens in it is a bad idea. Look for medical grade or platinum-cure silicone.
I don’t live in a state that advertises the toys as novelties, but all the toys at my sex shop are body safe. I have to imaging the ‘totally not a sex store’ novelty shop is probably also seeking the same suppliers, just different packaging
There’s a lot of stuff out there that isn’t body safe. Never been in a physical store but have gotten a lot of stuff online and had to throw out the toys I got first because they were TPE. They weren’t even marketed as novelties, they were being sold for body use, even though they weren’t safe. There’s no legislation preventing it, it’s perfectly legal to sell unsafe toys. If your toy isn’t silicone, then DEFINITELY don’t use it analy. Even then, unless it’s specified medical grade or platinum-cure, you’re rolling the dice on what’s actually in it. If you have a silicone toy you’re unsure of, there’s ways to verify it.
Mouthful of words, can I wrap em in condom?
Supposedly they can pack the earwax together which can be an issue.
Makeup removal or cleaning babies, according to the packaging
I bought metal earwax spoons. Sure, q-tips feel great and all, but pulling out the clod of wax actually responsible for the itch is divine
I am way too scared to use one lol. Certainly wouldn't trust myself to use it but maybe I should give one of those services a try.
They’re perfectly safe. Just pinch it towards the end you’re using, can’t do too deep that way.
I do try to be very careful but sometime overdo it a bit going a bit deeper but not to a point of permanent ear damage. Hopefully...
Yeah, I am not going to contradict any doctors when it comes to the risks, but for my ears and the way I do it, I haven’t ever hurt myself and my PCP says my ears are completely clear at each checkup.
I think I’m fortunate to have pretty light thin wax though.
For admins, it’s users. Period
Lusers
Software engineers hate MBAs. It’s like they live in a fantasy world where everything works perfectly and can be done in 3 days and can read your mind.
That's why those fuckers love LLMs so much. They don't understand anything remotely technical, and it makes them believe they can just cut out the grumpy, uncooperative middleman and push shit code in production they are unable to audit.
Maybe we software developers should use the trick of LLMs, always respond ‘you’re absolutely right’, but never do what this would imply.
Nah, only a tin can can get away with acting this stupid
We used to call this the “Powerpoint compiler”.
I got my MBA almost a decade ago, several years after getting my software engineering master’s first. We hadn’t started a family yet, and my employer had amazing tuition reimbursement.
It didn’t work on me though, even though there were some interesting systems, math, and psychology to learn about. I am still an individual contributor writing code daily, helping the younger engineers, and growing into my generalist graybeard best self.
Unfortunately my dark side training hasn’t given me much insight that you don’t already have yourself, most likely. I guess it’s worth pointing out that while most probably live in that fantasy world, there are some smart nerdy people in that world who might be driven to optimize their business like they’d min-max a dungeon crawler build. There’s just something else that went wrong along the way, lol.
Dentists hate 1, 16, 17, and 32.
I don’t even have those anymore and now their absence is causing problems.
Did anybody else just get LOST flashbacks?
Wisdom teeth? Yeah fuck those.
Software devs hate users
And technology. That’s why they all fantasize about living on farms
Some of us are real go-getters and realize we can bring the farm to us long before we retire! I am currently typing this on my Linux couch computer wearing lightweight clothes with literal dirt smeared on them, on a dinner break before I return to the back yard and continue today’s construction project. Sometimes being a “farmer” also means becoming a carpenter!
Granted, it works much better for the suburban homeowner than anybody living in a city and/or an apartment.
And when I refer to myself as a “farmer,” all my animals are family pets cared for as a hobby. There is 0% business plan. Well, probably negative %. When we have too many animals (usually too many fish in the pond) we give them away for free!
That does sound nice, but in writing this from my work from home location right near to the beach. But my second choice would be someplace with a lot of woods and some good star gazing.
Count another one for the sysadmin building a homestead in the forest while also building platforms for evil corpos from home.
I also have no intent of ever turning my farm into any kind of income. But it is definitely worth all of the extra work to spend any breaks sitting outside surrounded by animals, trees, water and sky.
Software devs also hate UX/UI Designers.
And Product Owners.
And Scrum Masters.
And Software Architects.
And Security/Compliance Managers.
And QA Testers.
And worst of all… Software devs.
Damned software devs, they ruined software!
Software devs sure are a contentious bunch
You’ve just made an enemy for life!
And themselves from a month ago…
… when they said to themselves "This little piece of code is fine, I don’t need to change it now. I’ll just refactor it later. "
I would never be able to explain coherently the difference between UX and UI people. I’ve only worked for one company that even had a UX guy on staff. He was paid an insane amount of money (close to half a mil per year) and as far as I could tell did absolutely nothing except insist that certain procedures be followed rigorously. He never designed anything at all himself.
He was the only coworker I’ve ever had who ended up refusing to speak to me or even acknowledging my existence. This came about because I wrote a TV Guide-type app for Blackberry which our client loved and insisted on having added to their corporate app. The UX guy insisted that no app could be produced unless it was preceded by a formal design document, so he was forced into the situation of having to produce a design document for an app that had already been written, which completely broke his brain. Or rather, he was forced into ordering someone else to do this, since as I mentioned he never actually did anything himself.
He eventually left because he got a job offer for way more money lol. I guess I shouldn’t make fun of somebody who had the system figured out far better than me.
In theory, UX deals with the psychology behind it: What do people want that our product can provide? Does our product communicate that it can do so? Do people understand how to use the product? Does the product guide them through usage helpfully? Are they satisfied with the result?
Perhaps most nebulously: How do they feel before, while and after using the product, independent of the product itself, and how does that impact their experience? For instance, if you’re buying a train ticket, you might already be stressed and annoyed, so you’ll have less patience.
Source: My wife, who had UX as the focus of her undergrad.
In practice, a lot of people are like you in that they don’t really know or grasp the field, particularly managers who aren’t qualified to make the hiring decisions they do and accordingly there’s always gonna be people capitalising on that ambiguity and grifting their way to a cushy “I’m important and get to have a say, so pay me well” job.
I thiiiink the thing with UX is that they consider overall usability and click paths, while UI is more down in the reeds and looks at more specific things like alignment, design language and color choices. The line between seems pretty blurry though, and how it works in practice probably differs widely between companies.
A good UX/UI team can make or break a project. As a Frontend-focused software dev, that kinda hurts admitting. It’s just always very frustrating to deal with them, because designers are specialized in design. So they neither know about technical limitations that make trivial seeming things hard (like conditionally changing a buttons color based on server state) but they also don’t know about technical “freebies” that the libraries we use give us (like just telling a component that they can overflow and render things wherever you want in ways that Figma would never allow you to design). So talking to them is hard, which leads to a spiral of never talking to them, fucking up the UX, and then dodging them while they try to get the UX fixed. That just sucks for everyone involved.
Hating the Design Team is apparently such a universal experience that Josh W Comeau has a great article on it. Really worth the 15min read, if you want to improve your relationship with the design team!
This is probably the one reason I hate designers the most. My personal biggest gripe about mobile apps (and desktop apps for that matter) is when there is plenty of screen space available to show a long piece of text (like the name of a song or movie, for example) but the allocated display area is small and the text is just truncated with ellipses. I had the experience more than once of being handed a design like this and simply modifying it to flow and allow full display of the text although this made the height of the element variable (usually not even requiring any special code or library, just HTML which handles this automatically). The designers always objected to this modification and insisted that it be removed, and the managers always backed them up on the grounds that my modification would take too long to implement - even though it had already been implemented (trivially) and would take even more time to remove.
That is to say, the designers always objected when I was foolish enough to mention that I’d done it. I did eventually learn that lesson.
Sysadmins hate computers.
Sysadmins hate node_modules/
.
Drumpf serving as US “President”…
Firemen hate pedophiles
Teachers hate pedophiles
Doctors hate pedophiles
Lawyers hate pedophiles
Liberals hate pedophiles
Conservatives hate pedophiles
Independents hate pedophiles
Where’s the fucking list Donny? Give us the list you fat orange fuck. We know you’re on it, and so do you. How did you think this was going to pan-out, dumbass?
Unless it’s their own, then “he’s saving a young girl from extreme poverty”/“she’s teaching a lucky boy a special lesson”/“was a human after all, no one is perfect”.
Shitlibs that pretend Bill Clinton and Joe Biden aren’t pedos give me a fucking headache. Also Bill Gates and Alan Dershowitz.
Bill Clinton would be unsurprising. He might be just a run of the mill philanderer, though. I haven’t seen any legitimate reason to suspect Biden. Of course I spent 20 years thinking Michael Jackson was just a weird dude with a Peter Pan complex and might legitimately not have been a pedo, so maybe I just don’t have a very good pedodar.
I was never sure about MJ, but I know that he was physically and sexually abused by members of his family. Dershowitz tried to push for lowering the age of consent to 14. Bill Gates was on the “Lolita Express”. No one associated with Epstein that went to his island is not a pedo, or at least a pedo enabler.
Epstein “best friend” Trump chief among them, still working to help actual real life adults who have molested minors evade justice. Trump has always publicly lusted after under age girls, including famously his own daughter.
I agree. Trump is definitely a fucking pedo. I don’t understand why he kept pushing the “Epstein List” with his base only to try and gaslight them about it now. I think he may have overestimated his toadies’ competence level in trying to delete himself from it while implicating his political rivals.
This is exactly it, I think. Or maybe he’s just in it so much that there’s not a lot left without him.
I haven’t seen anything related to Biden, but I haven’t heard a single person, on any side if any aisle, defending Clinton. It’s always just seemed like a failed “gotcha” attempt on the right, because most everyone to the left of “I’ll vote for anything with an R next to their name” would have no issue throwing offenders from their own side in jail along with the others.
This guy loves wild, unsubstantiated claims.
I wish this was really a blanket rule.
It’s in that performative superiority-complex way, like Lindsey Graham hating gays
We can put “most” in front of all of these categories. Acting like there are no liberal or independent ones is the equivalent of enabling them. Put them all in prison no matter what political affiliation.
From what we’re seeing in the US, pedophiles hate pedophiles… at least publicity.
Like bitjunkie said:
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Looks like you got downvoted by 9 pedophiles
Or by people that make the difference between pedophiles and pedocriminals
Do they?
Yeah, because they are hebephiles and the pedoes defile the kid before they can.
So, we’re positive there’s a secret list now instead of a wild claim out of the right-wing conspiracy hole that Donny played up to undermine the establishment & bolster MAGA votes like the press has been saying months ago?
I understand it’s a convenient weapon to turn against Donny, and it’d be funny if his coalition imploded over an unsatisfiable demand he campaigned on, but they’re not here on lemmy, so why is this here?
*child molesters. Many (if not most) who sexually abuse children are not sexually attracted to children. Many who are sexually attracted to children do not abuse children.
Proctologists hate things without a flared base.
“An apple a day keeps the doctor away, but not this way!”
Funeral Homes hate the Government.
They are incredibly rude to the families receiving financial assistance, it takes 3 months for them to pay us, and did you know that if you don’t have a will they cut your step-children out of the process entirely?
We had one gentleman in our care whose only living family was his step-daughter. Because there were no blood relatives and no will the Public Guardian took control of his disposition and the step-daughter had no say in anything that happened with him. Wasn’t allowed to keep a portion of the ashes, the Funeral Director had to fight just to allow the step-daughter a brief final visitation.
This is also true for children under 18. Your 17 year old child has no say in your disposition if you have no other living relatives.
Have a will people, if for no other reason than to allow your loved ones to decide how they will grieve rather than some indifferent bureaucrat.
Which country is this?
Canada
Do funeral homes in Canada charge grieving families 10k to bury their loved ones?
If they want a fancy casket and a large service maybe. It is rare to have a contract that large. Usually it’s in the $3000 - $5000 range, but anything covered by the government is less than $1500. (We also don’t have the cheapest prices in town)
It never occurred to me that a government would pay a funeral home, but now that I think about it, it makes perfect sense for a government to collectively pay for the disposal of human remains, since everyone needs it, and it can’t be abused.
Not everyone is eligible, but if the family has no money to pay for it the government pays for basic services. If the family has funds available they have to pay but I believe they get reimbursed for some amount.
Arborists hate Bradford pear trees. They’re the ones that have white flowers and smell like cum. That’s not even why we hate them though.
Well, what is it?
It’s an invasive species and they grow with very poor structure so that they basically collapse in a pile of broken limbs after a couple of decades. And the nurseries marketed them heavily for a while so they’re planted everywhere. Pain in the ass to work with.
They make fantastic smoke though. Absolutely the best free meat smoking wood out there, because you can always find it in piles at the ends of people’s driveways for the trash to pick up.
Honestly one of my favorite trees for exactly this reason.
I’m going to gather that the smoke does NOT smell like cum too.
Or is that why you love it? 🤔
Haha, it’s a fruit tree so it smokes similar to an applewood.
I wrote a mobile app years ago for a company that surveyed power lines to figure out what trees had to be cut away. They gave me a list of something like 800 tree species and I was like “do you guys really know what all these trees look like?” They did, it was a very impressive knowledge set.
A fun fact about power lines in rural areas: property owners generally get compensated monetarily when their trees have to be trimmed for this, and the amount they get is dependent on the species of tree. So the surveyors would usually find all kinds of incredibly exotic shit planted directly under the lines, basically a cash crop for people living in the middle of nowhere. This is probably a huge and under-appreciated factor in the spread of invasive species.
That’s gorgeous, I love the unintended consequences
I had one of these in front of my house, and every spring I wondered why I smelled crusty underwear in my living room. The day I finally had it removed was one of the happiest of my life.
What’s the reason arborists hate them?
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Some house nearby must have one of those in their garden, because there’s a section of the road where I always catch that odour. Thanks for pointing it out to me, now I’ll look for the tree next time I have to pass through.
There’s actually a few trees that can smell this way but if it’s in the spring and there are white flowers then it’s probably this one.
Anyone using a phone hates clankers.
There’s one automated system I need to call regularly at work that does not give me the option of dialing numbers and forces me to speak to it. It lists the options it can understand, but I can’t just press a number to move on. Then it asks me to say and spell my first name, then say my last name (which it guesses the spelling of incorrectly) and pretends to type while it’s processing. Why are we doing this?
Stop humanising answering machines by equating them to Star Wars level droids please.
Insulting.
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Star wars droids are just more advanced answering machines
Sure. But lots of them definitely qualify as AGI, whereas what we have is just AI.
So like yeah, oranges are round-ish and planets are round-ish, but there’s quite a sizable difference.
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Cell biologists hate contaminants.
Physical therapists hate motorcycles.
Nvidia hates Wayland. :(
frick! I just switched to wayland coz Schedule I was crashing xorg.
Nvidia hates people but lives because of them
And palaeoecologists hate people that borrow our lab, leave shit everywhere, and try to take it over. For FUCKS SAKE.
School bus drivers hate landscapers. And Amazon delivery drivers, but at least those fuckers move quickly.
We also hate children but I probably shouldn’t admit that publicly.
Epidemiology too for RFK.
Oh, I forgot for OB/Gyn: GOOP and “Natural Birth Midwives”
We all hate RFK, except Ortho. Those guys seem to like stupid $&#(.
Neurology: Football (American football) and boxing
Bet MMA is making the list too
For lawyers? The Dunning-Kruger effect.
That’s the enemy of anyone with any specialization
When a client tells you they’ve done their own research. Either go pro se or shut up and let us handle your mess.
every time i pick a different direction in my career, Donald Trump personally brings about that industry’s ruin
Have you considered a job in the military-industrial complex, or maybe at a hedge fund?
WW3 and having to suck up to racist pedophiles, those are already on the chopping block
WW3, and you can bet I’ll be sucking up the remains of racist pedophiles. With a wet/dry shopvac.
Inefficient.
Corpses should be put through a rotary macerator and then composted.
Instructions unclear now I’m having an affair with Pete Hegseth.
He would just use you be looking at himself in the mirror while flexing the entire time.
Become a hedge fund analyst or maybe get a job with McKinsey
McKinsey will likely be one of the few actual victims of AI replacing jobs.
SLTs hate pacifiers. They’re horrible for a child’s teeth, leads to costantly open mouths, are bad for posture etc… Most patients’ parents who come into therapy are good about weaning their kids but some don’t and don’t know about the harm either
What does SLT mean?
Speech and Language Therapist
or Swine, Lettuce, Tomato for a type of sandwich
As the other commenter said. Alternatives are also SLP - speech and language practitioner/pathologist, but I don’t think there’s a standardised name that’s always used in English. “Logopedics” is probably not used that often in English compared to “Logopädie” in German
Paramedics hate methamphetamine. And alcohol. And high voltage electrical current.
But we love people who injure themselves creatively.
Stupid people are our job security.
I think they meant unpredictable. Ie. So drunk or high on meth you might be violent towards the medics
So is it bad that I’m on prescription amphetamines and had to do some unexpected work on the wiring on a 3-phase compressor after having a beer?
Nah, you’re good. True methheads are… something else… That stuff really fries brains.
But electrical current is another story… doesn’t matter what you took first.
That shit is scary.
But three phases aren’t that bad, not nice,but survivalable. I am more talking about light rail overhead wires, train electrics,etc.
That shit fucks you up so bad even if you survive you wish you hadn’t.
IT people hate computers
Well, they may distrust or dislike them, but I reckon the hate goes towards printers - especially label printers
Even worse: network based label printers. Fuck them.
Yeah, sure. I don’t think I’ve ever directly attached them…
And why do the labs need a custom label size and layout, always?! I’m sure they’re just trying to be difficult
Right? Like leave one on the settings for prod, use the others for testing out the different settings.
Oh that’s the burning vitriol for all things of the infernal depths yes
i keep a shot gun in case my pc makes any wonky sound.
I have nothing against computers, as long as people aren’t allowed to touch them
I saw a “update” button pop up on my screen. The IT guy ran over, shouted “WTF I turned that off! Fucking bullshit!” And he stormed off.
I think about that a lot.
I too have configured a wsus server, that was about the experience I had.
Can relate
We have one app where client management can’t globally disable update checks or notifications, but also, the updates aren’t critical enough to constantly validate and roll out.
So we get that “update available” badge in the app and can’t do anything about it. Probably not an issue for most people, since they already do updates only when they’re forced to, but annoying to the few who even look at those notifications.
Windows and Microsoft in general does things to a man.
More like a love and hate relationship. I normally turn off my work computer and turn on my gaming one. Most of my time I am using one. Or a pocket computer some call it smartphone.
I hate that computers=troubleshooting, to the point where I won’t buy stuff with unnecessary computer electronics in it. Its getting to the point where I look at a product and just convert it in my head to however long I think it will take out of my life to troubleshoot it repeatedly.
But yes, I still work in IT by choice, for some reason.
Pharmacy: PBMs
All medical folks hate those bastards. The highest driver of increased prices, and only serves as the middle man.
What does PBM mean?
Parasites who make money off of ripping off patients and fucking over pharmacists. They are the rotten core of the US healthcare system and the primary facilitators of the exploitation machine turning your misery into profit.
They negotiate cheap prices from the manufacturers, charge the pharmacies (and by extension the patients) an arm and a leg and pocket the difference.
I believe they’re also the ones that argue with the pharmacist whether the patient really needs that expensive life-saving medication their insurance doesn’t want to cover, because they get kickbacks for saving them money. Sure, you might have cancer, but have you tried Yoga instead of chemo?
Dr. Glaucomflecken has a nice video on it as part of his series on US healthcare.
As a pharmacist I’ll give this my stamp of approval.
Only part I’d throw into this short write up is that 80% of the market is 3 guys - CVS Caremark, Cigna Express Scripts, and Optum. And they all steer to THEIR pharmacies and use this to continue the theft (such as Express Scripts paying a pharmacy in the Tricare military program 1% on a drug of what they pay themselves (using government money, of course)).
Microbiologists hate wild microbes everywhere
I’d argue that most wild microbes are not as bad as domestic microbes with all their antibiotic resistance development.
Honestly, I’d just rather not have any except ones I’m working on. Sterility requirements bring in a lot of headaches.
A decent lab requires several intermediate clean zones and several layers of sterile coats, plus if anything opens outside the flow cabinet, it’s as good as empty, except now you also get to manage the contamination of the surroundings.
And some molds are REALLY sturdy.
Neurophysiologist hate action potentials.
To be fair, just because you (generally, if you do cool stuff) want to sort the signals you recorded from a brain, a lot of times this messy annoying and takes up a lot of time. Saw quite some people get pretty mad about sorting spikes
Video game content creators hate reading ( especially controls ).
Edit:
There are plenty of times I’ll watch someone play a game and then get confused about how to do something in it because they either don’t look at the controls in settings or breeze past it or don’t read what a quest entails. They just play on in a braindead like trance and get confused and angry as to why the game that gives you everything you need to know doesn’t tell them something vital like a certain control they need.
This is basically why I can’t watch any “variety” streamers. They are, without exception, absolutely awful at learning new games or even just understanding what’s happening on screen.
You’d think that would be antithetical to having your livelihood hinge on playing a wide swathe of games, but here we are.
Steamers that focus on a specific game/genre thankfully tend to have some idea what they’re doing.
I played games all my life, and it always baffled me how some streamers can master one game over several years and then be completely unusable in another. Like bruh, it is still a game, it is not THAT different. Sure, they might suck because they didn’t master the mechanics yet, but struggling with basic controls for an hour? They gotta be playing it…
Throw me into a game, and if the controls make sense it will probably be second nature to me in 15 minutes for me.
That’s how I feel with just about any platformer that don’t have tank controls. Whether or not I’m good at said game is a whole different story…
Dude. It’s time you start playing flight and/or space sims.
(15 minutes hahahahaha)
Realistic games do not quite count, because the controls are complicated by nature and learning them is the gameplay.
I think most people avoid games that are so different from what they have played before that they dont know where to even begin. This happened with baldurs gate 3 a lot because it was so popular but also a new genre for most.
Do you still learn games quickly if they are entirely foreign to you? Last couple examples for me were satisfactory and minecraft, and both took quite a while to become proficient in.
All that said, I dont think variety streamers are playing complicated or complex games with long learning curves to begin with, so them struggling at normal platformers and such is pretty ridiculous.
Usually boils down to a given category and combination of main elements. Open world, survival, crafting, automation, FPS, rogue lite/like, RPG, inventory management, RTS, puzzle, first/third person, action combat, tat target, top down, isometric, etc.
Of course, there are heavy outliers, but those usually require heavy wiki / youtube use to even get into. Same with spreadsheet simulator games where mastery does not necessarily come with time but understanding of hidden mexhanics and synergies.
As an example, I used to play WoW a lot and raided a lot, then got back into GW2 after 10 years (where I didn’t do any dungeons or big raids, and if I did I couldn’t remember), and didn’t have problems with mechanics as others who were playing for several years. The mechanics just make sense, even when it is a new one - stay out of red circles, stack during attacks that split damage, damage phases etc.
When I got into Valheim, I already knew what would be needed without having to see any tutorials - build a house, make a farm, roughly where to look for what, and how to find info correctly.
There is not much I havent explored in my younger days, and throwing me into an FPS game I haven’t played would probably mean I’d be in the top quarter on my team in two or three games.
When started Helldivers 2, I could no problem take on diff 8 (out of likr 10 or 11) and stay up to speed with others way before I unlocked it, as lower difficulties did not pose much of a challenge besides not having the top gear unlocked.
Sure, I won’t know immediately what to do or how to control the character, but when I see a streamer struggling to clear content and see they throw points into defense on an attack character especially when it HIGHLIGHTS the recommended stats (looking at Clair Obscur), I just wanna tip my eyeballs out.
I am usually having a hard time with choices regarding optimization, like when I get to choose “do you want 1 level up or 10 attack power”, bitch I dunno. But we are back at spreadsheets.
Their livelihood doesn’t hinge on playing the game. That’s just incidental. They depend on interaction with the audience and stopping to read and understand something is dead air.
That’s a fair point. Which I guess changes my reasoning from “I don’t watch them because they’re bad at games” to “I don’t watch them because they are insufferable clowns”.
I look at controls in settings but all this time I assumed that was because I’m dumb. I thought “I was obviously supposed to know how controls work, because I need to go into a menu that is for changing controls, to see what controls are. If developers thought there was something that I couldn’t know without looking at the control map, it would have been in a top level menu called control/key map for me to have a quick look”.
I tend to think that’s kinda intentional. Drives up engagement by people telling them how to play in the chat. Also makes people think that they can do better and buy the game.
Damn, you created a doubt in me
Would all of this be a giant lie? AM I THE PRODUCT? (always was)
actual work.
Everyone hates Sales except C-suite.
i thought you were going to say AI for the moment, that seems to be all the rage for csuites and ceos.
Hah, very true. i was thinking further back.
I don’t hate sales as a concept. I just dislike the sociopaths who tend to work there.
At least they generate revenue.
Marketing, now that is a useless department with far too many people.
Accounting:
Intuit products. They mislead people into thinking they are saving money by not paying an accountant or taking a class or two at the community college.
Depending on the situation, it can result in heavy fines and fees when the books or tax returns need to be corrected.
As an IT person: Intuit products.
Their support sucks and unless it’s operating as designed, you basically can’t get any answer more specific than “call support” online, and when you do decide to call them, the IT guy can never get answers unless the account holder is on the line because they refuse to talk to anyone who isn’t on the account and they refuse to add the IT guy to the account.
Also, QuickBooks desktop is basically dead. There will be no 2025 version as far as I’m aware. They’re forcing everyone into QuickBooks online.
Also, their automated file doctor tools are basically useless, rebuilding a file has a good chance of breaking it, requiring intervention from the data services team.
They also seem to have no idea what automation is, and have little to no shits to give over making deployment and management any easier/simpler for the IT staff that needs to support their product.
Fuck. Intuit.
Wait until you meet Adobe
They can get fucked with a rusty cactus.
But at least with Adobe, their support actually knows things, and there’s an admin console where I can see what’s happening with my team subscriptions.
They’re expensive as all fuck, but that’s not my problem. That’s a problem for the company.
I like the one guy who said he pays taxes so that he can have civilization. It kinda sucks a company has near-absolute monopoly of tax-return software, and thus I’m interested if there’s a FOSS alternative to that.
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Everyone hate quacks.
Except ducks 🦆
As a psych nurse I hate food and housing instability and the death of thirdspaces. Oh and also the prison industrial complex.
I was in a waiting room at a hospital recently, and there was a homeless person trying to get out of the heat there as well. He was talking about how he hasnt eaten in days and he doesnt know what hes going to do. Not five feet from him is multiple vending machines filled with food and drinks, just a thin piece of glass barricading them in.
Seeing both of those things next to each other at the same time made me so angry. I dont really know what I’m angry at or who needs to fix it, but I know there’s a problem there that should be fixed.
As a game dev I hate capital-G Gamers™
Edit: before you feel personally attacked and don’t know what a Capital-G Gamer is. Read this www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Capital-G…
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Entitled customers of any flavour are awful. It’s one thing to know what you want and to decide whether something is worth your money, but it’s another to demand people cater to your specific taste and be a dick about it, as if the devs’ time and effort wasn’t worth anything.
And particularly annoying in my opinion are those who think they know how to fix a given issue, call you an idiot for not “just” doing that and have no idea of the constraints and decisions that might preclude or complicate that “simple fix”.
Instructional designers hate Articulate’s Storyline 360
Elementary teachers hate full moons.
Why?
Werewolves, obviously.
Some may think this is woo woo or superstition, but I lost count of how many times I’ve been like, “why are all the kids acting crazy (even the ones who are normally sane)?” and it turns out it’s a super moon or just a regular full moon.
I think it’s because kids still have that animal brain that sometimes overrides their logical brain.
From Wikipedia
TL;DR: Overall, studies show different answers, which could be the cause of:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_moon#cite_ref-12 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_effect
Probably a case of: only people that experience out of the ordinary rates or behaviors around those periods or days will speak up about it due to the phenomenon having some popularity, while others forget or don’t talk about it.
It seems that not a lot of people care about this, and the subject suffers from low sample sizes in my opinion (often around a few thousands at best). Due to the highly random nature of these events, I believe big sample sizes should be required.
Geologists hate engineers.
Why?
Sewer maintenance techs also hate engineers.
Actually everyone hates engineers.
No one hates engineers more than other engineers.
“Let me tell you what bullshit the guy before me did…”
I don’t know if things have changed, but engineers have not historically taken the expert advice of geologists, and it has cost lives.
Data scientists hate time zones.
Every dev hates time zones but I wouldn’t say it’s the number 1 enemy
We should invent standard computing time (SCT) or something and use that.
And name it Zulu Time because it sounds cool.
But are we summer or winter winds?
UTC
But dealing with timezone conversions and daylight savings is a pain. Like if you make a recurring task every day BASED on the user’s timezone, it’s annoying because of daylight savings
I would guess that in Data Science some things would require you to use local timezone because they are dependent on the actual time of day, and some would require synchronization so use of UTC. Also, some timezones are way off the sunlight time and would skew the data that has dependency on daylight and not on hours
Programmers hate ai
Psychologists hate facebook…and also ai
Marriage Counselors hate reddit…and also ai
Engineers hate managers.
Remember next time you get a shitty product, don’t blame the engineer who designed it. Blame the manager who forced him to do it that way.
Technicians hate engineers. An engineer will drag themselves across a field of naked virgins, ignoring them all, in order to fuck one mechanic.
There is no worse designer than a German engineer.
As an engineer I can understand that.
It can be a little like a dentist and a dental assistant. The assistant does all the work but the dentist gets the Porsche.
MEP Electrical Engineer here!
Architects. Boy do I sure hate me some architects.
My dad was a marine engineer (ports, harbors, that kind of stuff) and he used to say an architect is an engineer with his brains knocked out.
This is apt. I concur. We are concurrent.
I blame designers for everything. Keeps the fads and fashion for the well-to-do. The average person needs function first. Why would anything I want to buy for regular use be available seasonally or only come in over the top fancy plastic shapes with weird colors and breaks with less than 100 hours of use. I have a kitchen and office because I use them, not because it accents my overpriced home. I have worked in merchandising from many angles and it sickens me. Even what should be simple packaging on almost all retail products is overdesigned and printed full of lies. And the worst part is the cost of the product is directly related to design. Look at how cheap some knock-offs can be produced. I would never presume the engineer to be the source of the overpriced malfunctions of consumerism.
I think the average consumer simply believes its not legal to lie on packaging like that. They might not have even asked the question of whether its true or not.
And don’t get me started about UX designers! Motherfuckers break whatever is working so it looks “clean”.
As a former tech manager, I’d argue you’re a pretty shit manager if you tell your people how to solve a problem. Guide, inform, clarify, help remove obstacles etc. etc., but the solution is for the engineers to find.
Look, I don’t wish to be insulting but with a comment like that, I find it hard to believe you worked in any business. While engineers maintain some level of control over product design, like making the product actually function (although I’ve even seen that thwarted by management) they do not usually have the last say in things like ergonomics, interoperability, improvements that cost extra, appearance, business development and many other design parameters.
By management I should point out that I am including anyone who is above the design engineer in the process.
I’ve seen business development guys promise customers impossible functionality because “that’s what I thought they would want.”
I’ve seen schedules created by systems engineers that could not be met if we lived in a Star Trek universe.
I’ve been in meetings where production logic was similar to; if one woman can give birth to a child in 9 months, nine women can give birth to a child in one month.
I’ve seen budgets slashed to the bone or critical people removed from projects for a host of reasons, good or bad.
In an actual example I was in a meeting where the manager of business development didn’t know what the term PC Card slot meant. When he was presented with the product design in a meeting, he asked where the PC Card slot was. So the engineer pointed out that it was internal to the unit, on the motherboard where they were always placed. He did not like this because there was no actual slot on the outside. When it was pointed out that that wasn’t really possible without completely redesigning both the motherboard and the enclosure he insisted we put a slot on the outside. When told that the PC Card slot couldn’t be reached from ANY slot on the outside of the enclosure he made us redesign the end plate to incorporate a PC Card shaped slot that served no purpose except to stroke his ego, and add a costly change to a product with existing tooling and necessitate a PC Card slot sized plug to seal the unit against moisture be designed. We, from that day forward, referred to that end cap as the vanity plate.
Yeah a good manager would do all of those things you said assuming his manager doesn’t stop him, but that’s the point, managers suck. That’s why we hate then.
I don’t disagree with anything you’re saying.
What I wrote was based on my personal experience, managing engineers on product teams and how I approached the role as manager.
We owned the products we developed and maintained and as a team we enjoyed great autonomy, and so we were spared customers/clients asking for the ridiculous, and I can probably count on one hand (ok, maybe two hands) the times we just had to do something because corporate said so.
We always pushed for engineers’ involvement in product and feature development, planning/roadmaps, and they did indeed have great influence over the what and the how. Push back from engineers on products’ suggestions/ideas/plans were frequent, and attention was paid.
This was for a company in Norway, where perhaps top down management isn’t as prevalent as in many other places, and employees are typically encouraged to speak up and get involved. Again, in my experience.
I found that being there to support and assist my engineers, not micro managing them, gave great results in terms of team culture and work satisfaction. I made it clear that I would always have their backs as long as they didn’t intentionally fuck something up.
I fully realize this isn’t the case everywhere, nor even typical.
All said, I really enjoyed being a manager. On some level it triggered a father’s instincts in me, and I took great pride in looking after people and seeing what they were capable of building as a team.
Tech support hates boomers and zoomers
I enjoyed clueless people when doing tech support, it made me feel needed 😂
Clueless people who want help yes. Clueless people who are confidently wrong and refuse to listen to reason or accept personal responsibility for the fact they broke their stuff, no.
Agree 👍
Pretty much everyone then
Pretty much everyone who belongs on Golga Frinshan Ark Fleet Ship B
Let’s hear it for the generation who had to fix computers as a survival skill.
Most, if not all, professions in the domain of knowledge creation hate AI.
Never understood the deal with q tips. Like, just don’t shove it all the way to your eardrum and don’t push wax inside?
I was thinking Ents as in Ent trees and couldn’t remember when in the LOTR Q-tips were used against Ents…
How do people use them else though? What are they for? Who cleans the outside of the ear with this? Just use water and soap when you shower??
Manufacturers do it for liability and doctors for that one idiot out of twenty.
Cardiologists probably hate fried food and energy drinks
The amount of people absolutely POUNDING several event drinks a day is astounding.
I have a heart condition and couldn’t drink them if I wanted to, without dying, so they don’t believe when I say it’s bad for them.
Yeah, WTF is up with this? The people that will drink 3 or 4 cans of Monster a day? JFC, that shit’ll kill you, man!
I worked with someone who would bring 4 cans of monster to work every day, but he told me he was essentially addicted. He said he’d get pounding headaches if he didnt drink them now. Its probably not all that different from a cocaine habit.
Caffeine habits are very real, and holy shit, that’s like 6-7 coffees a day. If he went cold turkey, it would be a week of hell at home, vomiting from the migranes.
I think knowing him made me reframe how I view caffeine. I treat it as a potent drug and it seems to affect me that way now, so I barely use it.
When I went off caffeine, it took me down with 3 days of flu like symptoms and headaches. Grouchy asshole is an understatement. I was drinking 2 coffees a day, I can’t imagine.
it’s just caffeine, i’ll never understand why people can’t just buy a bottle of caffeine pills and get the precise amount they want, it would let him slowly decrease the amount until he isn’t dependent any more.
Its really hard to be in charge of your own taper, self control is usually lacking in substance abuse situations.
i mean it’s caffeine, not nicotine, and even with nicotine a good amount of people manage to taper down usage. You don’t get addicted to caffeine, you get dependent, which is much easier to handle.
I’m failing to see a downside
Tastes better than cigarettes shrugs
coffeine makes me sleepy so energy drinks only give me placebo and it doesn’t matter that coffeine barely affects me, could not care less about the caffeine, but
one can usually has an entire day’s maxiumum amount of sugar for an adult in it, that is an insane amout to drinking in an hour or so. and that’s not to even mention that whatever they put in them seems to enjoy making kidney stones!
those things should not be a regular part of anyone’s diet
Then you see the cardiologist at lunch pounding an energy, and stuffing whatever the fastest option in their hospital is, down their throat.
then going out for a cig break
Retail workers hate you.
I was going to say “Customers”, but I hated my coworkers too.
Guitarists hate the G string
Same for strippers
Whoever is fixing your computer absolutely despises you if you’re a smoker. Tar gets everywhere.
Tar is better than roaches. Y’all nasty.
Excel users: Blank cells in worksheets, leading / trailing spaces, broken desktop links in shared files, bad formatting, bad conditional formating, merged cells*, locked workbooks from 5 years ago someone lost the password too, looking at you Bob!
Human being here. I hate people.
/s
Users are the enemy of IT workers.
“Everything is working fine. What do we even pay you people for?”
“Everything is on fire! What do we even pay you people for!”
You just can’t win with some people.
The trick is to occasionally let some fires through, just enough to let the users feel the heat before fixing them.
Printers.
Specifically small consumer printers that users insist on having on their desk
🤮
Differential cooling rates.
But it’s crucial for bimetalic strips around the world
And detrimental to everything structural made of metal.
Eh, you win some you lose some
Need me those cheap thermometers
helpdesk and users
Bike mechanics hate Slime
Anesthesiology: we hate add-on cases
Paramedic - being awake.
Data Engineers hate delimiters in data
Chefs hate everything and everyone, but especially instagram.
My hell is a land of dishes that were sent back to be reheated.
probably overinflated, egoistitical, spineless, tech leaders.
Proctologists hate deodarant cans
I thought they’d absolutely love objects without flared bases - keeps them employed, and entertained!
I, a warehouse worker, hate OXO for slapping every warning label under the sun on their boxes. I saw a box of oven mitts labeled “fragile” along with like five other warnings. Not even a one size fits all box either, this had custom printing for the product.
Also Crown for making equipment that is so ineptly fly-by-wire there is what feels like half a second delay between input and response.
Typewriter repair men used to hate word processors.
People saying users are the bane of IT professionals are just antisocial whiners. The real bane of an IT professional is fucking printers. Fuck printers.